We need to guard against the kind of public statements that have troubled me in recent months and years.

I did sponsor the Congressional Gold Medal Act that gave the Gold Medal to the Selma and Montgomery marchers.

It would be difficult to speculate on that. We saw what you are alluding to during the Nixon administration.

I mean, you would rather have children of immigrants here that came lawfully rather than unlawfully.

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?

Any short-term political agenda gains that come from the abuse of the lawmaking processes and requirements of the Department of Justice just do not make sense.

Not unless it is such that they cannot perform their duties in an honorable way, consistent with the law.

The American people have no desire, and they absolutely should not have their money sent to Washington and then be wasted.

I am going to follow the laws passed by Congress.

I believe that any responsible public official should recognize that when their own Inspector General says that their department is not performing according to high standards, they should listen to that report and take action and review…

I appreciate the fact that our country has been talking and, I believe, taking action for a number of years to deal with sex trafficking more effectively.

The IDEA creates lawsuit after lawsuit, special treatment for certain children, and is a big factor in accelerating the decline in civility in classrooms all over America.

I think that is a very dubious practice. I would be cautious about it, and we would have to make sure it is justified.

The Department of Justice is a great institution. Most of the people are people of the highest character and ability.

I think it is problematic and difficult to justify a prosecutor charging five kilos of heroin when the actual amount was 10, to get a lower sentence.

I do think the FBI, particularly maybe the Bureau of Indian Affairs investigators, should be beefed up, and the U.S. Attorneys need to do probably a better job of prosecuting cases that need to be prosecuted in Federal court.

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

President Obama continues to abuse Executive power in an unprecedented, reckless manner to systematically release high-level drug traffickers and firearms felons.

I think Senator Kyl was a strong advocate for that.

It is not a little matter. It is a matter that has created controversy over the years.

Yes, I will, Mr. Chairman.

The legal profession is better for his service, this body is better for his service, and this country, at the end of his term, will be better for his service.

I would not commit to you that I have formed an opinion on that.

The first and foremost goal, I think, of law enforcement would be to identify persons who are dangerous, who have a tendency or have been proven to be lawbreakers and been convicted.

As the Judiciary Committee's Ranking Member during that time in which this legislation was pending, Senator Sessions played a significant role in helping us to craft a bill that would gain bipartisan support and eventually passed Congress…