Jeff Sessions

I asked you, 'Do you believe, if you go to Iraq with the--that we can achieve a successful result?' You said yes.

I think this is a historic hearing.

I think it would be important to have our allies also join in that.

Show us a strategy that will leave us--lead us out of this morass that we're in.

We can't change our strategy every time a President changes.

I believe that, at this point in time, we, as a Congress, needs to assert itself.

Just morally, my judgment is that Europe needs to know there is a place for these refugees to go.

I really, really, really believe going to virtually zero presence in Iraq was a colossal disaster.

If Iran continues to maintain its determination to go forward with a nuclear weapon, if we reach an agreement, our ability to sanctions and other actions could weaken.

Go back and read Senator McCain's warnings about what would happen if we did that, and it has happened exactly like he said to the great tragedy.

It is painful. If you read the statements that we have got of people----

Well, people are not commodities. We compare labor to commodities, but they are not commodities. They are human beings.

I think that has much validity and I share that view for a lot of reasons.

I just, frankly, do not see this.

I do not think this--I think this is the basic, commonsense approach. We should ask ourselves what we are doing.

Discouraging U.S. graduates.

The trend of having such a large number of foreign tech workers is depressing wages, but it is also depressing the likelihood that American kids will go into these fields.

Well, as you said, I think, in the beginning, businesses do what businesses do and if we create a law that allows them to bring in unlimited numbers of foreign workers, we are going to expect what we get.

I just would say that this Congress represents the people of the United States. And, yes, bringing in talent to America is a good thing, but we have no obligation to yield to the lust of big businesses.

Well, Professor Borjas at Harvard, I think, he did it by skill set and found the more of a skill set that you have, a flow of foreign labor does pull down wages.

I have got to tell you that my understanding of our role is to serve the national interest of the people of the United States.

The purpose is to allow employers to fill slots for which adequately trained Americans are not available, not to replace existing workers with cheap foreign labor.

I think it is obvious that it is in the national interest that the 1 million people that immigrate to America each year who are on a path to citizenship and come lawfully, we should tilt that number to more high-skilled people.

Eighty percent of their workers, they bring H-1Bs, hold no more than a bachelor's degree.

I could not agree more. I tell my business friends, well, free markets, you believe in those, do you not? Why are not wages going up if we have a shortage?