Jeff Sessions

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...

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

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

There are limits on Federal reach historically and constitutionally.

If a mayor takes a series of bribes and, that is, bribery being a predicate act under RICO, the mayor can be charged with RICO.

I do believe a legitimate Federal role in prosecutions and a dramatic limitation on the ability of the Federal Government to prosecute clear criminal acts by State and local officials would be bad policy for the country.

I think Justice Ginsburg was correct in saying that if Congress were to take up the enterprise of criminalizing 'undisclosed self-dealing by a public official or private employee,' it 'would have to employ standards of sufficient…

The Supreme Court I do not think is trying to further illegal activity when they have rendered several cases that tell us that you have got to have criminal statutes that are clear and mean something and have real definitions.

I believe we have got to have more clarity and more commitment to go further than that.

I appreciate Senator Begich and Senator Warner working with Senator McCaskill and myself to try to enforce the President's spending levels.

As my granddaddy said, you can't borrow your way out of debt.

There is no reason that instability stays out there.

I do not think--that is not impressive to me. I am not worried about what has happened anecdotally in some individual case.

So that is where the responsibility lies, with the President of the United States, and they are persisting in an unwise policy, in my view, that cannot be justified.

I am worried about this whole process. It is not working logically to me.

The Attorney General--I am quoting here from your answer--'has the lead responsibility for terrorism acts committed in the United States.'

The FBI has no legal authority to proceed against a terrorism suspect who is arrested within the United States in any venue other than an Article III court.

I am not comfortable with the decline in prosecutions, so I am going to look to find out more about that.

There is much more ability for the U.S. Government in dealing with an unlawful enemy combatant...

I just hate to create a situation so only the big four or five can drill in the gulf.

I talked to a restaurant owner. They had done $430,000 in business last June. This June, this restaurant in Gulf Shores, they were down to $260,000.

It just strikes me both economically and out of a sense of fairness that if you hurt people, you ought to pay for it.

To what extent do maritime lawsuits limit or prohibit punitive damages?

I am really proud of the people, proud of the Coast Guard. They are giving their best effort.