Jeff Sessions

Marijuana is illegal. It is a substance--it is, in our schedule of substances, a Schedule 1--I believe a Schedule 1 illegal drug.

It's serious, dangerous business.

I'd suggest start applying them, following them.

Thank you very much. Good words, indeed.

So I am not saying any of this is wasted, although I am sure some is not spent well

I think we have one of the best nominees of the Clinton Administration.

Nobody should serve longer in the slammer than makes sense.

Some of that is due to objections from Senators from the fourth circuit to President Bush's nominees, rightly or wrongly, but some of them did not get confirmed.

It's good to see Congressman Davis. He was an Assistant U.S. Attorney and knows something about Federal courts himself, a Harvard Law graduate.

I think--I'm not sure Mr. Ogden's--the Deputy Attorney General's--memorandum titled 'Authorizing Medical Use of Marijuana,' sets a good policy.

I would just suggest to you that one of your roles may be... to take the hard issues that are necessary to keep drug use down in the country.

Sentencing is such a big deal. You have got a 98 percent conviction rate.

We shouldn't be spending taxpayer dollars unless we know that it's on areas that really work.

I believe that the--and, see, with regard to the fourth circuit, I'm not familiar with their internal statistics, but they do issue a number of opinions and then some of them nonpublished, some of them published.

The Constitution prohibits establishment of a religion, but it guarantees the right to free exercise of religion.

I think one of the biggest difficulties we face in the legal system is confusion over the establishment clause.

I would like to start a preemptive complaint about failure to move judges.

I think the Supreme Court has failed to clarify what it is that is OK and what is not OK or what is permissible and not.

It does not bother me that a nominee is a Democrat or has been elected as a Democrat or been active politically.

I was so proud to be there, to replace one of the statutes that Alabama had in Statuary Hall with a statue of Helen Keller.

We just like to see nominees that know when they put on the robe, something special occurs.

One of the things that I think is healthy in this entire judicial nomination process is that key Senators are involved and that your opinions are sought.

The court is the cornerstone of liberty and prosperity.

We can do better about that.

I am generally, as you can tell, not disposed to a major increase in judges.