Jeff Sessions actually said...

"I do not favor personally this kind of work. I think it should be more productive work."

"I would agree with that. As you formulated, I believe it would be wrong to further some other separate, discrete agenda that is not reasonably connected to the merger itself."

"The Solicitor General... has a duty, the Department of Justice does, to defend the laws passed by this body, by Congress."

"Well, it can fail to enforce it by setting prosecutorial policies with regard to declining to prosecute whole chunks of cases and, in effect, eliminate a statute."