Jeff Sessions

Our mission is not to get to zero troops at a certain date. Our mission is--and what we have committed to and what we have invested in in blood and resources--a successful outcome. I hope that we do not lose sight of that.

We are the finest military in the history of the world in my opinion.

NSA focuses on collecting foreign intelligence information that is relevant to protecting the national security of the United States and its allies.

I believe the PATRIOT Act that he helped craft and we all worked on... was not one of these things where you have to reduce constitutional rights in order to protect America.

We have not uncovered any official efforts to suppress dissent or any intent to intrude into people's private lives without legal justification.

Congratulations on being nominated to august Federal positions. I know your families are proud of you.

You will answer when called that.

I think we would be smarter to help assist the technology development than to issue mandates before we have technology capable of meeting the mandates.

It was supposed to be the brightest prospect for a long time, was it not?

I believe that we do need to evaluate where we are with ethanol. I have supported that in the past and was very confident about cellulosic research and development possibilities.

I supported the law that we would have cellulosic mandates, and we thought we would have some things happening...

That represents a reality that we are going to have to deal with...

But it would be naive and a big error if we were to think we can just walk away from incarcerating dangerous people.

I think we invest a lot of money because the Federal Government wants to have the highest and best prison system.

I just would say to my colleagues I think there is a decline in Federal and State incarceration rates from the time 1981 when I was made United States Attorney.

We have had an increase in violent crime rates.

But we have got to have a breakthrough. More people in prison need to be working.

So all I would say to our colleagues is there is no doubt in my mind that moving from a revolving door where people would come in and they would be given probation and then they would be released on bail for the second, third, and fourth…

I believe in terms of cost we spend too much per prisoner in the Federal system.

Senator Durbin and I did work together on legislation to ease some of the sentences for crack and other penalties.

I do not believe we need dramatic, draconian changes in discovery.

One of the biggest damages to justice in America I think has been bogus lawsuits filed at great cost.

I think proportionality, as in this rule, does seem to bring the judge in.

But it is not necessarily justice if you do not owe the claim, number one. It is not justice if you do not owe the claim.

I hope that they reflect justice and not injustice. I hope they do not weaken justice in the process.