Jeff Sessions actually said...

"they were implemented with clarity, without equivocation, and it, I think, was another one of the factors in the decline in drug use in America."

"The Athens Banner-Herald quoted you as saying, 'Sentencing does not deter crime. The only thing I see sentencing doing is taking a person off the street so they can't do it for a while.'"

"I believe both sides of the aisle here would back you up on that, if you have done it in the right way."

"we need to be after those folks, and they will be facing substantial prison sentences."