Jeff Sessions

I only ask that you do your duty as God gives you the ability to see that duty as you are charged by the Constitution.

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

I understand the demands for justice and fairness made by our LGBT community.

I am not naive. I know the threat that our rising crime and addiction rates pose to the health and safety of our country.

The prosecution sought to protect the integrity of the ballot, not to block voting. It was a voting rights case.

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

I am very concerned that the recent jump in the violent crime and murder rates are not anomalies, but the beginning of a dangerous trend.

Protecting the people of this country from crime, and especially from violent crime, is a high calling of the men and women of the Department of Justice.

The message must be clear: Everyone is expected to do their duty.

The Office of Attorney General of the United States is not a normal political office, and anyone who holds it must have total fidelity to the laws and the Constitution of the United States.

You know that I revere the Constitution, that I am committed to the rule of law; and you know that I believe in fairness and impartiality and equal justice under law.

I feel the weight of an honor greater than I have aspired to.

I want to thank President-elect Donald Trump for the confidence and trust he has shown in me by nominating me to serve as the Attorney General of the United States.

It is hard to believe, really, that the three of us have served together in this body for almost 20 years.

I want to thank my dear friends and colleagues, Senator Richard Shelby and Senator Susan Collins, for their kind and generous introductions.

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

Senator Sessions has worked across the aisle to lead important legislative reforms.

Jeff Sessions is a person of integrity, a principled leader, and a dedicated public servant.

Today I am not sure women or people with different sexual orientations face that kind of discrimination. I just do not see it.

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.

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?

The Attorney General is a law enforcer. There is a big difference between a politician and a Senator where we vote on policy and executing that policy.

You speak for the legal interests of the State.

Senator Lee, that office is important.

That was not fair. That was not accurate. Those were false charges and distortions of anything that I did.