Jeff Sessions actually said...

"I would defend the statute, if it is reasonably defensible, yes. It is passed by Congress; it would be the duty of the Attorney General, whether they voted for it or support it, to defend it."

"I abhor the Klan and what it represents and its hateful ideology."

"Protecting the people of this country from crime, and especially from violent crime, is a high calling of the men and women of the Department of Justice."

"The Office of Attorney General of the United States is not a normal political office, and anyone who holds it must have total fidelity to the laws and the Constitution of the United States."