Jeff Sessions actually said...

"Yet in the 15 months since the Inauguration, the Voting Rights Section, according to information I have, has brought only four cases in that time period and dismissed another."

"I believe strongly in that. But I was--I guess I could be criticized for being unaware that perhaps they were making loans to some people who could not afford them."

"You have been a critic of politicizing the Department, and I think you should take care to make sure that you do not."

"But there still remain concerns about how that case was handled, and I do not think they are going to be resolved unless the people actually involved in it are allowed to testify or to give evidence."