Jeff Sessions

The Air Force did start off with this process in a very, very unfortunate way.

The Deepwater Horizon incident is a very serious disaster and it is heartbreaking to think of the lives that were lost, the livelihoods that have been affected, and the impact on the environment.

I believe that it is unthinkable that we have no problem relying on countries such as Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Venezuela, for increased oil imports, while refusing to produce our own domestic reserves.

Well, but we are not going to go down that road either, because that is the military conflict and one of the things we hope to achieve by this rapid draw-down--I hope it is not too rapid--is a financial savings and that to be separate.

We have to abandon this idea that somebody's projection increases are the fact and that a reduction of increase is a cut in spending.

These are not acceptable increases, I do not believe, and I do not think they are going to be approved.

I do not think our institutions have yet grasped that.

But in general, when you take a procurement plan and you stretch it out, it tends to drive up costs as well as delaying you obtaining the system.

I think we are in a bubble in Washington.

I think that is a bipartisan consensus, gentlemen, and it is very scary.

I would just say, in this time when jobs are just a critical factor for us...

I have no doubt that we need to start cutting this year.

The United States Treasury is going to receive a lot less money because this is a foreign company and they probably will not even incorporate in their country.

And that will create jobs...

And I think that if we really care about the long-term living standards of Americans and workers, we need to cut our corporate tax...

We face a lot of challenges. We do have a revenue shortfall and we cannot tax ourselves out of competitive world markets.

I do think the Commission's report on tax reform is very valuable, and it has a lot of suggestions that are critical.

We believe that if we do not take decisive action, our Nation faces the most predictable crisis in history.

We will continue to pursue bringing this Government to fiscal sanity.

Deficits do matter. They always have and always will.

This Congress has a high priority to have fiscal sanity in this Congress in spending and we have to work at it and it is not going to be easy.

We have to contain spending in this country. We are heading off a cliff with 40 cents out of every dollar being borrowed.

I was flabbergasted to see that the Department of Transportation is asking for a 62-percent increase in spending.

I cannot believe that the President continues to insist that we are going to be paying down debt on this budget.

We have some priorities and views and one of them is to get the country's fiscal house in order before we go bankrupt and have a debt crisis.