Jeff Sessions

I do think that the scheme you arranged for this hearing is good, the way we have gone forward.

Our former chairman, Senator Hatch. He's given us a definition for a number of years, and that is when a judge allows their personal, political, or other biases to overcome their commitment to the rule of law.

I think you've handled this well throughout, and I support you 100 percent.

I hope this will be viewed as the best hearing this Committee has ever had.

I expect this hearing and resulting debate will be characterized by a respectful tone.

What I found was that charges come flying in from right and left that are unsupported and false.

Well, you could follow through on these programs and do some other initiatives and be able to preside over real improvement, I think, in the lawfulness of our immigration system.

The American people, correctly, are dubious of a plan that gives lawfulness now to people who came in illegally.

And we will be looking at those numbers, the best numbers we can get, and I think the American people will hold you accountable for progress.

The need to fix our immigration system is something I support.

But I would note that when you have a 70-percent decrease from the peak of the commencement of enforcement and those numbers continue to drop each year, the stress has been high on the courts and the prosecutors, but it is moving in the…

I think when the American people realize that the broken pipe is being fixed and we are not just mopping up the water but we are fixing the leak, we can have a far better discussion about how to deal fairly and humanely with people who…

We have been provided the greatest legal system the world has ever had, and all of us have a responsibility to pass it on and to ensure that every single American is provided what is on that Supreme Court building, 'Equal Justice Under…

I do not think there has been another raid of that kind since, and it may be the unintentional result of your comments and actions that the agents got the message.

Directing them to target both illegal workers and employers that create incentives for aliens to illegally cross our borders, which I think is the law and sound policy, and I appreciate that.

The rule of law is the most lacking thing in those countries. If you could have security and lawful behavior and the government had the capacity to secure people in their lives and in their business interests and they would prosper, their…

The problem of the Uyghurs that are held at Guantanamo who are certified to have been trained at a terrorist camp

People expect out of this Committee high standards of professionalism and integrity and fairness and justice, and you can be sure that we will work hard to discuss the issues that are important to America.

It is flatly prohibited for them to be released into the United States.

We have the responsibility to ensure that our ships have a right to traverse the high seas according to the laws and the historical rules of the high seas; isn't that right?

I think the Obama administration needs to send a clear message that when the legitimate interests of this Nation are threatened we're prepared to defend our interests, and we're not going to pay tribute to pirates, and we're not going to…

We should not try to give away or excuse away the responsibility we have to protect ships on the high seas.

Flag ships of the United States of America have a right to sail in the high seas, and we have a governmental duty, do we not, Admiral, to protect American flag ships on the high seas?

We don't need treaties to defend our ships.

There are 300 sailors being held, 20 or more ships, and I don't think we have reached any clarity of action.