Jeff Sessions actually said...

"agencies oftentimes see themselves as independent fiefdoms."

"I would not commit, at this time, to appointing a special counsel when I am not aware of a precise factual situation that would be in play."

"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."