I believe that we should be following offenders intensively.

And would you agree that it would be important for the commission to allow this Fair Sentencing Act time to be implemented before it produces any additional policy recommendations or conclusions about the crack and powder cocaine issue?

we need to be after those folks, and they will be facing substantial prison sentences.

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

And that strict scrutiny should be applied, which means a very careful review of any situation in which we give one ethnic group or racial group or religious group an advantage over another.

I do believe, do you not, that the ultimate authority of a judge to adjudicate a person guilty and sentence them to custody provides a kind of opportunity or the environment to get the attention of the offender and perhaps give them a…

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.

I believe both sides of the aisle here would back you up on that, if you have done it in the right way.

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.'

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

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

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

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

I do think it is incumbent on Congress to pass a law that means what it says and is clear.

I think it is both overbroad and underinclusive.

The Skilling decision has created significant challenges for our law enforcement.

What we do not want to get into is something like you have in Russia with a bunch of oligarchs...

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…

But perfect justice is not possible in this world.

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

Every crime is not a Federal crime.

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.

I think Senator Sessions is dead right that that goes to the definition of what local is, and that should not be the bar.