Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I have to admit that this is a bittersweet moment for me. I come here tonight to express my support for Jeff Sessions' nomination to be the next Attorney General of the United States. It is a high honor, and the nominee is more than worthy. The truth is, I will be sad to see him go. In all the time I have known Senator Sessions, I have found him to be a consummate gentleman. We actually met before I entered the Senate. It was 2013. I was serving in the House of Representatives--a first-term Congressman. Senator Sessions, of course, was my elder in both age and rank. Yet he reached out to me humbly to discuss a hot topic-- immigration. Back then, there was an effort afoot to force through Congress a massive immigration bill the American people clearly did not want. So the two of us worked together to stop it, and I am glad to say we were successful. I took away more from that experience than an appreciation of the Senator's legislative skills. I got a sense of his character: how he saw the world, what he believed, and why. If I had to sum it up, I would say this is a man who loves the law--who has spent decades doing all he could. Senator Sessions knows the law shouldn't be the spider's web of old, which catches the weak but cannot constrain the mighty. It is supposed to uphold the entire community so all Americans can thrive. What we have is a legal system that at its best strives to be a justice system.…”