Top 55 Jeff Sessions Quotes

At a time when this country needs a good military, the last thing we need to be doing is turning out of our military of people who served and then bringing in people who are illegally in the country.

The question is, can we have a more peaceful, effective relationship with Russia, utilizing interests that are similar in a realistic way to make this world a safer place and get off this dangerous hostility with Russia.

I will not vote for – and no senator should vote for – anyone who will not render justice impartially.

All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That’s the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.

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.

Trump has a way of driving a message so people hear it.

We can’t do everything with a budget, but we can put the country on much sounder financial footing.

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.

It is a core principle that prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious readily provable offense.

How many thousands of lives would be saved if we enforced our immigration laws, our guns laws, and our drug laws? Public safety is not being held hostage by the ‘gun lobby,’ but by the open borders lobby and the anti-law enforcement lobby.

In America, the Supreme Court and the American people believe no one is above the law.

If we can get this economy moving and quit doing the things that prohibit growth, Alabama… can sustain that growth.

I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks.

I think we have a high responsibility to base any criticisms that we have on a fair and honest statement of the facts, and that nominees should not be subjected to distortions of their record, taking things they’ve done out of context.

If we want an international trade deal that advances the interests of our own people, then perhaps we don’t need a ‘fast-track’ but a regular track: where the president sends us any proposal he deems worthy, and we review it on its own merits.

Drug trafficking is an inherently dangerous and violent business.

Iraq assumes responsibility for its own future… They have got to step up.

We have a toxic ideology, hopefully very small, within Islam; certainly most people, most Muslims, don’t agree with this violent, jihadist approach.

I remain deeply concerned about falling wages and the lack of good jobs for Americans. Too many of our citizens are either stuck in place or falling behind, and too often their needs are forgotten.

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.

Bin Laden, who was in his country, attacked and damaged our Pentagon, and killed our soldiers right out here at the Pentagon. But his pentagon no longer exists. It is rubble.

You don’t have a constitutional right or a moral right to demand entry into any country.

I worry that we risk losing the hard-won gains that have made America a safer and more prosperous place.

Donors don’t win elections; voters win elections.

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.

I do think it’s a real problem when we have ‘Black Lives Matter‘ making statements that are really radical, that are absolutely false.

After years of mass immigration, falling wages, and surging joblessness, isn’t it time we focused on the needs of the people living here today? Isn’t it time we got our own people back to work?

I do believe we have voter fraud in America.

The basic social contract is that citizens agree to follow the law, pay their taxes, and devote their love and loyalty to their country, and in exchange, the nation commits to preserve and protect and serve their interests, safeguard their freedom, and return to them in kind their first allegiance and loyalty.

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.

Failure to deport aliens who are convicted for criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk – especially immigrant communities in the very sanctuary jurisdictions that seek to protect the perpetrators.

I recall saying that civil rights organizations, when they demand more than is legitimate, it hurts their position.

This country does not punish its political enemies. What this country ensures is that no one is above the law.

You pay a price when you have an objective sentencing system. That is, nothing is perfect.

Scripture says, ‘He didn’t know the Lord, didn’t respect the Lord, but the Lord used him to advance his kingdom.’ I just believe that at this point in history, Trump will defend religious faith. I talk to him about that.

My father never ran for office or supported anybody for office, and was not engaged in that at all.

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.

Even moderates, they can see in Trump the potential to have logjams broken and things finally get done. This makes some conservatives and some liberals furious, nervous, and me nervous a little bit, because I’m a pretty pure conservative. So that’s a potential of his leadership.

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 are in a movement that must not fade away. The bosses are you. The people in Washington are public servants, and they serve you.

I cannot and will not violate my duty to protect confidential communications with the president.

Hybart is a little community I grew up in, so it was just a wonderful time in those years.

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.

Is our national goal to place as many people on welfare, food stamp support, as we can possibly put on that program? Is that our goal? Is that a moral vision for the United States of America, just to see how many people we can place in a situation where they’re dependent on the federal government for their food?

The elites have become international, and they’ve ceased to have a primary loyalty to the nation-state.

The Senate cannot confirm an individual… who would support a scheme that violates our Constitution, eviscerates congressional authority.

The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace – we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.

Our nation needs to say clearly once again that using drugs will destroy your life.

Congress has taken an action now that makes it absolutely improper and illegal to use waterboarding… or any other form of torture by our military and by our other departments and agencies.

I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.

Know when cities and states refuse to help enforce immigration laws, our nation is less safe.

Every senator needs to stand up and represent their constituents – not big business, not the ACLU, not activist groups, not political interests, but the American interests, the workers‘ interests.

I am pleased to endorse Donald Trump for the presidency of the United States.

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.

I think it is likely that within every department there are some officers who subtly, if not otherwise, are biased in the way they go about enforcing the law. I think that is just life. We know that to be true.