Political Quotes

“this week we have to decide whether Senator Sessions, somebody whom many of us have known and worked with for many years--I certainly have during all of the time he has been in the Senate--is the right person to lead the Department of Justice. I thought long and hard on it. I decided he is not. I would like to share a few reasons why. In fact, the Trump administration itself underscored what is at stake with this nomination. When the administration accused Acting Attorney General Sally Yates of having ``betrayed the Department of Justice,'' it exposed a view of the Justice Department that is disturbing and dangerous. The claim that Ms. Yates ``betrayed'' the Department by refusing to defend the President's illegal and shameful Executive order--you have to believe that in the Attorney General's office, your job is to defend the President at all costs. That is wrong. I think Senator Sessions knows that. There is a reason the Justice Department is not led by a Secretary of Justice: the Attorney General is the people's attorney, not the President's attorney. The Trump administration has already shown us why this distinction matters. Within its first two weeks, the current administration found itself rebuked in numerous Federal courts around the country. Its extreme agenda cast a shadow over all the President's nominees.…”