Jeff Sessions

I think that is where the American people are. I think their instincts are good and decent.

I do not know where they are, deciding the fate of millions.

On March 15, 2013, Secretary Hagel announced a series of steps the United States will take to stay ahead of the challenge posed by North Korea and Iran's development of longer-range ballistic missile capabilities.

I know you love the country and know a lot about the military. So we have some real opportunities, I think, in the years to come and some real challenges.

There was no provision in the BCA agreement to raise taxes.

But it is happening. It is happening right now. It is in the law.

I think it's unimaginable that if we go to zero that every other country in the world would go to zero.

I'm concerned that our partners will look to create their own, and this is the very definition of proliferation.

The administration was surprised by the threat from North Korea--prompting the March 2013 decision to add back the 14 GBIs in Alaska, which DOD cancelled in 2009.

We in the Congress are a bit intimidated by the Fed. We tend to accept everything.

It seems to me that the President ought to be leading, as Dr. Meltzer said, and helping us to reach an accord on some of these issues where we can make some improvements.

We thought we had a real opportunity to fix long-term entitlements in the 2011 Budget Control Act process.

Do you think that the $1 trillion extraordinary deficits we have been running for the last four, five years are creating economic uncertainty?

It seems to me that a showdown over the debt ceiling resulted in Gramm-Rudman being passed. It resulted in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.

Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency announced dramatic new CO2 regulations that have been interpreted to be the death of coal.

The Affordable Care Act is helping to slow the health care costs.

We need to have growth in the private sector, and debt itself is pulling down growth.

Well, both parties--

I do believe it has got to be done on a bipartisan basis.

It appears that the White House has been using numbers of high-cost States.

I think the economic argument that defense is the source of our fiscal problems is really wrong.

I simply ask, not as a Democrat or Republican, but as a former business investor, would you ever invest in a business that spent less than 5 percent of its revenues on training and educating its workforce;

I do not believe this sequester is going to be fixed with new taxes.

2014 is going to be a particularly problematic time because the cuts come so fast that there is no real way to phase them in.

I am beginning to wonder if the President is not quite happy to see the Defense Department take this much cuts.