Jeff Sessions actually said...

"I would suggest that this gives further credence to the argument that we have a difficult--we are not going to get very far, getting our way out of the unsustainable debt course by raising taxes."

"Rather than increasing tax rates, we should take a lesson from the tax rate reductions of the 1920s, 1960s, and 1980s."

"I think then we would have to have a choice about whether we should then lower rates, which would be my personal choice, but more importantly, to lower spending."

"obviously you suggest the choice of reducing deficit between cutting spending and raising taxes, the better choice is to reduce spending."