Jeff Sessions Quotes
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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.
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I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.
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My father never ran for office or supported anybody for office, and was not engaged in that at all.
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Trump has a way of driving a message so people hear it.
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In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.
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As Washington prospers, workers suffer.
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Whereas the handling of the case against President Nixon clearly strengthened the nation's respect for law, justice and truth, the Clinton impeachment may unfortunately have the opposite result.
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My previous 15 years working in the Department of Justice were extraordinarily fulfilling. I love the Department, its people and its mission. I can think of no greater honor than to lead them.
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In America, the Supreme Court and the American people believe no one is above the law.
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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.
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I have supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality, and fairness for all.
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It is a core principle that prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious readily provable offense.
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I cannot and will not violate my duty to protect confidential communications with the president.
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You don't have a constitutional right or a moral right to demand entry into any country.
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It is not legitimate that an American citizen feels that they are more likely to be arrested or held to account or stopped and searched than someone else simply because of the color of their skin.
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Legal immigration is the primary source of low-wage immigration into the United States.
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My belief is that the nation-state remains the one entity that can function, the one entity that can demand sacrifice from its constituents in the national interest.
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The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is not disarming them. The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is to arrest, prosecute, convict and jail criminal offenders, especially armed career criminals illegally using guns. This is the way to reduce gun violence.
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I recall saying that civil rights organizations, when they demand more than is legitimate, it hurts their position.
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This country does not discriminate. No president, no officer in this country should hold office that has any hint of treating people differently because of the color of their skin or where they came from and that kind of thing. We believe in equality and fair treatment and that's the moral principle that we adhere to as a nation.
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The job of elected officials is to answer to the people who sent them to Washington - not to scorn them, not to demean them, not to mock them, and not to sell their jobs and dreams to the highest bidder.
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I worry that we risk losing the hard-won gains that have made America a safer and more prosperous place.
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You do not walk into any hearing or committee meeting and reveal confidential communications with the president of the United States, who's entitled to receive confidential communications in your best judgment about a host of issues.
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Hybart is a little community I grew up in, so it was just a wonderful time in those years.