Jeff Sessions: “As the debt grows, the private sector has to assume that that debt is going to be paid.”

I really am amazed that a judge sitting on an island in the Pacific can issue an order that stops the president of the United States from what appears to be clearly his statutory and constitutional power.

Do you believe that you would come under political pressure from leading Democrats on this committee who want you to arrest 500 more people?

I think we ought to clarify it one way or the other so the public is out there not breaking Federal law.

It hasn't been good, and the American people don't like the idea that we're separating families. We never really intended to do that.