Jeff Sessions actually said...

"Any changes would need to be carefully done, and thought out in a principled and honorable way."

"The Solicitor General... has a duty, the Department of Justice does, to defend the laws passed by this body, by Congress."

"Senator Sessions has sponsored or cosponsored a plethora of bills honoring significant civil rights leaders, events, icons."

"Well, it can fail to enforce it by setting prosecutorial policies with regard to declining to prosecute whole chunks of cases and, in effect, eliminate a statute."