Jeff Sessions

I believe we have a culture, a history, a heritage of limited government and we have accelerated our debt situation through a number of bad decisions.

The President did contend that he could cut spending without reducing benefits.

I just would say that any--maybe you would--my time is about up, so if any of the two of you who have not commented, I wish you would.

As I have come to realize, the actuarial unsoundness of Medicare and Social Security, you really cannot do that.

I think we have too light a treatment to the need to contain wasteful spending now, that is not producing much for the economy.

But when we talk about the tripling of the debt in the next 10 years based on the chart that the Senator showed earlier, that is not being scored?

A lot of us oppose that. We don't believe in that.

We have got to confront the problem.

I truly believe we did not get the kind of job creation and economic stimulus that was projected for it.

But to me it should have been a core part of his entire address, to alert the American people that changes are going to have to occur and they are not going to be pleasant for everybody who is used to getting so much money.

It seemed to be, and this word leaked out, that deficits don't matter.

A contingent liability of this magnitude--an avoidable one--I mean, these other--reforming Medicare, obviously, is a huge conversation.

This could lead to a devaluing of the currency and a surge in debt.

When I came here, I kind of acquiesced into the idea that public debt, well, we will just argue over it as a base, the public debt, and use those numbers.

I just do not believe that we can afford to throw another $270 billion of stimulus package when we got so little from the one that we have done.

Understates it. Do you agree with that, Dr. Johnson?

What was happening politically and morally was we were losing our discipline and people were buying into that language.

When you bring somebody into custody and you ask them a question, you have to give me Miranda except under extraordinary circumstances.

I do not agree that the hospital has anything to do with it. He was in our custody.

I do not think you can say it is appropriately. We do not know what that individual learned while he was working with al Qaeda.

I was able to work on legislation and get language in that said anyone 'a part of al Qaeda at the time of the alleged offense was per se an unprivileged criminal combatant, enemy combatants, subject to military commissions and indefinite…

I don't think--I just would say I do not think we need to have proof beyond a reasonable doubt that a person is a terrorist before they go on the list.

It is not just the ability to prosecute this individual, but whether if he were properly interrogated over a period of time we may find out that there are other cells, other plans, other Abdulmutallabs out there boarding planes that are…

This is, I think, a matter of national security since Abdulmutallab is associated with al Qaeda with whom we are at war.

I think it would be indisputable that you get less information if you give a Miranda warning than if you do not.