Jeff Sessions actually said...

"I would not receive it from Henry Hayes, I will tell you that. He no longer exists. So no, I would not take an award from the Klan."

"I think it is, yes. That is exactly what I intended to do."

"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."