Jeff Sessions

Why wouldn't that be the right way to start the case and have a policy for every FBI agent, every police officer, every TSA airport official to begin--to not give Miranda warnings and not provide free attorneys to people who are attacking…

You had a commission, you co-chaired the commission to decide what to do, and you concluded that even those who had already been arrested and already are detained at Guantanamo, there would be a presumption that they would be tried in…

Isn't it true and isn't it appropriate that after they have been taken into military custody, if you chose to try them in civilian court, you could still do so?

The record of the Article III courts in the conviction of terrorists in this country is unparalleled, and that is absolute fact.

I think it is important that the executive branch strike the right balance between preserving the rule of law and releasing individuals who we know are determined to harm our Nation, and this is a difficult area.

When you try a person in civilian court, you have to give the Miranda warning upon taking them into custody.

I supported your nomination, but your actions have shaken my confidence in your leadership at the Department of Justice.

We recognized that we are at war and that our normal criminal justice procedures were not designed for and not appropriate for the new threat.

I think the simpler and more logical decision would be to reconsider fundamentally and try this case where it should be, I think, in military commissions.

We then began to establish a military commission framework consistent with history for the detention, interrogation, and trial of captured al Qaeda terrorists.

After 9/11, our Nation fundamentally re-evaluated its approach to terrorism.

It just makes perfect sense to me that these cases would be tried there.

You declared in this Committee directly that it was going to be tried in New York, and you defended that as an appropriate way.

I think it is pretty clear that the administration has been slow in making those nominations.

You are going to get less actionable intelligence than if you did not do so.

I share his views, in general, there, and was disturbed to read, recently in the Washington Times, that a general--an Army general--General Bostick--who is the deputy chief in charge of personnel matters, spoke before several hundred…

I think that the key is, we can provide the security, but the central government needs to ensure that the government's part of helping that country is in place.

We need to understand that the remote areas of Afghanistan have never been directly ruled by Kabul; and we're going to have to work with local leaders, much in the way that occurred in Al Anbar.

I am so proud of the Marines. I've had the opportunity, as I know Senators Levin and McCain have, to visit with marines in serious combat areas, and seen their performance, their courage, their dedication.

I have great confidence in you and would sincerely wish to express my appreciation for your fabulous service.

In 2008, I supported a feasibility study to determine if the Black Belt should be designated a national heritage area.

This is a great area of our State. It is an area that I grew up in.

I believe it is a uniquely historical area.

The freedom to succeed is also the freedom to fail, and people who wish to become rich 1 day aren't always to be provided assistance when they have not been successful.

I think maybe the Japanese experience should share with us that keeping zombie banks and zombie institutions alive that really ought to go away and start over again can be a mistake also.