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Donald Trump is saying the right thing. We're bringing in so much labor, it's pulling down working people.
I am humbled to have been asked by President-elect Trump to serve as Attorney General of the United States.
It is a core principle that prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious readily provable offense.
I think people are free to marry any way they want to. But churches are free to set standards for marriage.
We need to give them [the Justice Department] as much power as we can without eroding fundamental liberties.
This country does not punish its political enemies. What this country ensures is that no one is above the law.
I think the leaders in all parties tend to adjust to reality. They just have to or they won't remain in office.
We have a lot of bad leaders around the world that operate in ways we would never tolerate in the United States.
I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks.
I recall saying that civil rights organizations, when they demand more than is legitimate, it hurts their position.
I've supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality and fairness for all.
At least 99.92% of illegal immigrants and visa overstays without known crimes on their records did not face removal.
If we can get this economy moving and quit doing the things that prohibit growth, Alabama... can sustain that growth.
It is clear that IDEA '97 not only undermines the educational process, it also undermines the authority of educators.
I have supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality, and fairness for all.
I did not have any private meetings nor do I recall any conversations with any Russian officials at the Mayflower Hotel.
I have always loved the law. It is the very foundation of our great country. It's the exceptional foundation of America.
I grew up, really, in the country.When I was a kid there were three country stores, a railroad depot, and a post office.
The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace - we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.
In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.
Basically [I become a Republican], pretty early. I had an English teacher that got me to subscribe to the National Review.
Occasionally [Donald Trump] says things that are too strong and upsets people, and I think he'll work to do better on that.
[Donald] Trump is where the Republicans are, and if you're going to be a Republican leader you should be supportive of that.
My parents, both of them had teachers in their family and were pretty well read. So my father voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower.
To every American, he [Donald Trump] is saying to them, "You elect me and we're going to fix the lawlessness at this border."
The Republican Party, in many ways, grew up as a reaction to that [ segregation], and a lot of people have misunderstood that.
All of us who work in law enforcement want to keep people safe. That is the heart of our jobs; it is what drives us every day.
We are in a movement that must not fade away. The bosses are you. The people in Washington are public servants, and they serve you.
Honest people can disagree on policy. But where there can be no honest disagreement is the need to change our nation's debt course.
My father had a country store and then later, when I was 10 or 12, sold it and bought a farm equipment dealership in nearby Camden.
I'm often loose with my tongue. I may have said something about the NAACP being un-American or Communist, but I meant no harm by it.
We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the most part.
More taxes, more regulation, more Washington domination, more debt. Those things are not the future for America. They will never work.
I do think it's a real problem when we have 'Black Lives Matter' making statements that are really radical, that are absolutely false.
The Senate cannot confirm an individual... who would support a scheme that violates our Constitution, eviscerates congressional authority.
We should create an America in which it's - we can - Americans have a better chance to progress wages and job prospects, and we can do that.
It's not so much the attorney general's job to decide what laws to enforce. We should do our jobs and enforce laws effectively as we're able.
Those policies - more taxes, more regulation, more debt, more spending, more government - will make American worse. It just will, in my view.
I think the elites who have done nothing about it, who don't want a wall and don't care that the border is illegal, they see this as a threat.
My great-great-great-grandfather or something, I think his father came before him; but, in the 1840s, he was a circuit-riding Baptist preacher.
We need more American energy. It keeps wealth at home. It keeps our wealth from ending up in Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. It creates jobs at home.
We have a toxic ideology, hopefully very small, within Islam; certainly most people, most Muslims, don't agree with this violent, jihadist approach.
I told Donald Trump, 'This isn't a campaign, this is a movement.' Look at what's happening. The American people are not happy with their government.
The largest untapped constituency in American politics are the 300 million American citizens who have been completely left out of the immigration debate.
The caricature of me in 1986 was not correct. I do not harbor the kind of animosity and race-based discrimination ideas that I was accused of. I did not.
The goal of this Nation, I so strongly believe, is to be a preeminent world power. We have to understand what comes with that: The responsibility to be strong.
I think the people who go to work every day don't feel like Washington cares a whit about them,and, actually, they're executing policies that are bad for them.
[Donald Trump] was a magnificent witness. The reporter, when asking me about his testimony, said, "Sessions gushed about his testimony." But it was remarkable.
We need to resist the temptation to create more entitlements and more entitlements, which is one of the reasons we are heading recklessly toward fiscal crisis.
Thirty years people have been asking for a lawful system of immigration to end this lawlessness, and government on both parties have refused to give it to them.