Jeff Sessions

The Supreme Court expressed a very clear view that in America, preferences should not be provided to one ethnic group or racial group over another.

But if so, it was not very good authority and I am glad the court has moved away from it.

I think that is the ideal of American justice, I really do, and why people come here from all over the world.

Thank you. We do not want to pass over the U.S. attorney too lightly.

Well, the Constitution deserves a fair interpretation, it seems to me, and what essentially the people who ratified it meant.

It is an important job.

I believe that we should be following offenders intensively.

They were implemented with clarity, without equivocation, and it, I think, was another one of the factors in the decline in drug use in America.

I think about the squeegee crackdowns, the street crimes in New York that New York cracked down on, and all crime plummeted when they did that.

I agree with that constitutional analysis, very clearly.

The Athens Banner-Herald quoted you as saying, 'Sentencing does not deter crime. The only thing I see sentencing doing is taking a person off the street so they can't do it for a while.'

I do not think that Congressmen or Senators should be condemned if they say we do not need to Federalize every wrong.

But perfect justice is not possible in this world.

It would be better that they could be prosecuted locally.

I do think the Supreme Court has raised an important issue.

Every crime is not a Federal crime.

To deprive another of the intangible right to honest services.

I do believe that anyone who is familiar with the reality of criminal prosecutions knows that it is very difficult for a local district attorney to bring a complex case against a bank or financial institution or powerful politicians in the…

I think it is an important issue. The Supreme Court has raised these issues.

I do believe it is an important hearing, and we are wrestling with very significant issues.

I think it is both overbroad and underinclusive.

I think the fundamental question we all need to ask is: Is this an area of prosecution that the Federal Government needs to prosecute?

Knowingly is just--you just--that is not with intent to defraud.

It always made me proud as a Federal prosecutor that that was one of the areas that we spent time on.

If an individual, the mayor, picks up a rock in Alabama and murders someone, that is just not a Federal crime, is it?