These are not the actions of an individual who is motivated by racial animus.

I have never testified with more optimism and enthusiasm than I do today for Senator Jeff Sessions.

They deserve the same protection that any entity--business or otherwise--is entitled to, when people violate the law and carry out improper threats or blockades of their business.

A citizen of the United States has certain important rights. They cannot be abrogated.

It would raise serious constitutional problems because the Constitution explicitly guarantees the right to free exercise of religion.

I abhor the Klan and what it represents and its hateful ideology.

We tried to provide more protection for U.S. workers.

We need to be accurate in what we say.

It presents tremendous opportunities to solve crimes in an effective way and can produce justice.

I do not favor personally this kind of work. I think it should be more productive work.

That is a very insightful or probing question, and it touches on a lot of the important issues that I, as Attorney General, would need to deal with.

There are times when the Attorney General represents the State, he has an obligation and a duty regardless of what the parties to a litigation may say.

I am a great believer in religious freedom and the right of people to exercise their religious beliefs.

These were good people who asked me to get involved in this case.

I think some of them are truly valuable in evaluating cases, but fundamentally, the criticism I think that was legitimate is that they may not have been followed.

I think the American people are entitled to know, of those who are committing terror plots against us, how many are coming in through a broken immigration system.

No one has been more committed or engaged than Senator Jeff Sessions in protecting and enhancing the prospects of Black workers in America.

I believe they are growing and we are seeing that now in Europe and we are also seeing it right here in America.

More needs to be done. We need to join closer hands.

A number of people opposed some of the provisions in that bill, not the entire bill.

You are not threatening and not guaranteeing you are going to prosecute people until you fairly evaluate all the facts and the evidence and the law they thought they were dealing with at the time?

Donald Trump has also said that he believes criminal aliens obviously should be the top priority.

Senator Sessions has demonstrated a commitment to the rule of law and to the evenhanded administration of justice.

I have always loved the law. It is the very foundation of this country.

This country has every right to deport persons who are here unlawfully, who violate our criminal laws in some other aspect, and they should indeed be promptly deported.