Jeff Sessions actually said...

"We don't need to blunder in short-term thinking and make some errors that might have ripple effects that we don't foresee today."

"we must have a realistic ability to respond, and our adversaries need to know it."

"Russia represents the greatest threat, or the potential greatest threat, to the United States."

"There is a growing unease that we are seeing, particularly in the latter days of this administration."