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Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 84th Attorney General of the United States from 2017 to 2018. A member of the Republican Party, he was previously a U.S. Senator from Alabama from 2007 to 2017. During his tenure in the Senate, Sessions was known for his strong stance on immigration and law enforcement issues, advocating for stricter immigration policies and supporting various measures to combat drug trafficking and crime. He also served as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama from 2001 to 2002.

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Jan 3, 2017

I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks. I supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality and fairness for all.

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Nov 17, 2016

At the time, he angrily denied these accusations that he was racist.

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Nov 16, 2016

I am not a racist. I'm not insensitive to blacks. I have supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality and fairness for all.

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Nov 16, 2016

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

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Nov 16, 2016

I'd be honored to be considered and Mr. Trump will make those decisions.

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Oct 16, 2016

Do you want to tell me that I think the election in Philadelphia and Chicago is going to be fair? I would have to be moron to say that.

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Sep 24, 2016

I believe he's been formulating in his own mind how he's going to handle a lot of these questions for weeks now.

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Sep 24, 2016

You're right, the immigration flow is excessive. It's pulling down wages and hurting our country.

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Sep 24, 2016

You are right, American people. We are on the wrong track as a nation by 3-1 margin. Polls show that.

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Sep 24, 2016

Well, he knows a lot more about building things than Hillary Clinton, that's for sure.

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Sep 24, 2016

If his heart is right and if his vision for America is correct, his vision for the future that will make their wages go up instead of down, I think that'll make -- that's the thing they're going to be looking for.

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Sep 21, 2016

It's time for something to happen from Europe.

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Sep 21, 2016

Five years ago, the President said, 'Assad has to go, and is going.' He did not go.

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Sep 21, 2016

The situation in Syria is a colossal disaster. I do not believe it had to happen.

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Sep 21, 2016

We should have been more cautious and careful in our declarations of how we expect Syria to develop.

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Sep 21, 2016

What he's saying, in leading the Democrats, and they're saying, not only do we have to bust the budget for the Defense Department.

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Aug 22, 2016

All I can tell you is I'm not a doctor, I'm not diagnosing it, but she's not even doing press conferences and she's doing such a few events compared to Donald Trump.

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Aug 22, 2016

Look, Donald Trump is not 'softening' his position on the legality of illegal immigration.

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Aug 22, 2016

There is not a deportation force, you don't deport 11 million people, you find a way to abide by the law and see what that provides.

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Mar 3, 2016

I believe you will have the necessary congressional support.

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Mar 3, 2016

the President's fiscal year 2016 budget request and out-year spending profiles represent a good faith effort given our financial difficulties.

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Feb 29, 2016

it is unacceptable that the United States pay 75 percent of the cost of NATO.

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Feb 29, 2016

Well, it is worse than not perfect. I mean, they have been declining and they are below their commitment of 2 percent, most of them. Are they not?

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Feb 29, 2016

One of the things we all need, I think, to understand here is just because we got a group of nations together that pretend to be an effective leadership, sometimes they undermine the ability of action to actually occur that could be…

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