Jeff Sessions

It is essential that this Department of Justice clearly reaffirms its commitment to longstanding principles that ensure the integrity and fairness of Federal investigations and prosecutions.

The Department of Justice would also take all lawful steps to claw back any funds awarded to a jurisdiction that willfully violates 1373.

We need that wall. It will help us complete the promise the president has made to the American people. That's what they want. The American people have a right to expect it, and I believe Congress will eventually deliver.

I really am amazed that a judge sitting on an island in the Pacific can issue an order that stops the President of the United States from what appears to be clearly his statutory and constitutional powers.

We are going to step up our effort and already are stepping up our efforts on all leaks. This is a matter that's gone beyond anything I'm aware of.

With retrospect, I should have slowed down and said what I did meet one Russian official, a couple of times, that would be the ambassador.

In retrospect, I should have slowed down and said, but I did meet one Russian official a couple of times, that would be the ambassador.

I have recused myself in the matters that deal with the Trump campaign.

I have recused myself in the matters that deal with the Trump campaign.

I have decided to recuse myself from any existing or future investigations of any matters related in any way to the campaigns for President of the United States.

Let me be clear, I never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the Trump campaign.

I believe those recommendations are right and just. Therefore, I have recused myself in the matters that deal with the Trump campaign.

Donald Trump is speaking for the American people against a corrupt international Washingtonian establishment.

I believe there's nobody run for president in years who understands how to negotiate more effectively than Donald Trump.

Well, critics of the immigration enforcement, the DAPA and the DACA laws, said that the prosecutorial discretion argument went too far.

Well, Senator Feinstein, I would direct their attention to, first, to the remarks of Senator Specter who, in his entire career, said he made one vote that he would regret and that was the vote against me.

The legal profession is better for his service, this body is better for his service, and this country, at the end of his term, will be better for his service.

I applaud his selection. I look forward to his swift confirmation.

This is the kind of Attorney General that our Nation needs.

I have not seen the slightest evidence of racism because it does not exist.

He fought for civil rights. He prosecuted members of the Ku Klux Klan and, most importantly, he has fought for the liberty of all Americans.

Senator Sessions is unquestionably qualified for the job for which he has been nominated.

Senator Sessions testified yesterday that he would enforce the laws whether he agreed with them or not.

Jeff will protect and defend the rights of all people.

Jeff Sessions will enforce and follow the laws of the United States evenhandedly, equally, and with justice for all.