Top 55 Jeff Sessions Quotes

I think people are free to marry any way they want to. But churches are free to set standards for marriage.

All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That’s the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.

You don’t have a constitutional right or a moral right to demand entry into any country.

All of us who work in law enforcement want to keep people safe. That is the heart of our jobs; it is what drives us every day.

How many thousands of lives would be saved if we enforced our immigration laws, our guns laws, and our drug laws? Public safety is not being held hostage by the ‘gun lobby,’ but by the open borders lobby and the anti-law enforcement lobby.

The basic social contract is that citizens agree to follow the law, pay their taxes, and devote their love and loyalty to their country, and in exchange, the nation commits to preserve and protect and serve their interests, safeguard their freedom, and return to them in kind their first allegiance and loyalty.

We need to resist the temptation to create more entitlements and more entitlements, which is one of the reasons we are heading recklessly toward fiscal crisis.

I enjoy repartee and frequently engage in devil’s advocacy. In short, when I talk to friends, I do not guard every word that I say because I think that I know they know that my commitment to equality and justice is real, and they would not twist my words or misinterpret what I am saying to them.

You know the discrimination: African-Americans couldn’t go to certain schools, they couldn’t use certain restrooms, there were other kinds of routine biases against them.

Our nation needs to say clearly once again that using drugs will destroy your life.

We are in a movement that must not fade away. The bosses are you. The people in Washington are public servants, and they serve you.

I think it is likely that within every department there are some officers who subtly, if not otherwise, are biased in the way they go about enforcing the law. I think that is just life. We know that to be true.

I will not vote for – and no senator should vote for – anyone who will not render justice impartially.

If we want an international trade deal that advances the interests of our own people, then perhaps we don’t need a ‘fast-track’ but a regular track: where the president sends us any proposal he deems worthy, and we review it on its own merits.

Bin Laden, who was in his country, attacked and damaged our Pentagon, and killed our soldiers right out here at the Pentagon. But his pentagon no longer exists. It is rubble.

Congress has taken an action now that makes it absolutely improper and illegal to use waterboarding… or any other form of torture by our military and by our other departments and agencies.

I’m a big fan of the DEA.

I worry that we risk losing the hard-won gains that have made America a safer and more prosperous place.

The Senate cannot confirm an individual… who would support a scheme that violates our Constitution, eviscerates congressional authority.

I think we have a high responsibility to base any criticisms that we have on a fair and honest statement of the facts, and that nominees should not be subjected to distortions of their record, taking things they’ve done out of context.

If we can get this economy moving and quit doing the things that prohibit growth, Alabama… can sustain that growth.

The job of elected officials is to answer to the people who sent them to Washington – not to scorn them, not to demean them, not to mock them, and not to sell their jobs and dreams to the highest bidder.

I told Donald Trump, ‘This isn’t a campaign, this is a movement.’ Look at what’s happening. The American people are not happy with their government.

Whereas the handling of the case against President Nixon clearly strengthened the nation’s respect for law, justice and truth, the Clinton impeachment may unfortunately have the opposite result.

The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is not disarming them. The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is to arrest, prosecute, convict and jail criminal offenders, especially armed career criminals illegally using guns. This is the way to reduce gun violence.

I like to discuss things. I am open: I like to discuss with liberals better than I do with conservatives.

We can’t do everything with a budget, but we can put the country on much sounder financial footing.

At a time when this country needs a good military, the last thing we need to be doing is turning out of our military of people who served and then bringing in people who are illegally in the country.

We have a lot of bad leaders around the world that operate in ways we would never tolerate in the United States.

My father never ran for office or supported anybody for office, and was not engaged in that at all.

Scripture says, ‘He didn’t know the Lord, didn’t respect the Lord, but the Lord used him to advance his kingdom.’ I just believe that at this point in history, Trump will defend religious faith. I talk to him about that.

All of us know that when the confidence of a private conversation is breached by a party with ulterior motives or one who simply misunderstands what the speaker says or means, the speaker can always be embarrassed.

Failure to deport aliens who are convicted for criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk – especially immigrant communities in the very sanctuary jurisdictions that seek to protect the perpetrators.

The goal of this Nation, I so strongly believe, is to be a preeminent world power. We have to understand what comes with that: The responsibility to be strong.

It is not legitimate that an American citizen feels that they are more likely to be arrested or held to account or stopped and searched than someone else simply because of the color of their skin.

Republicans do not believe in identity politics.

The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace – we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.

My previous 15 years working in the Department of Justice were extraordinarily fulfilling. I love the Department, its people and its mission. I can think of no greater honor than to lead them.

Honest people can disagree on policy. But where there can be no honest disagreement is the need to change our nation’s debt course.

The question is, can we have a more peaceful, effective relationship with Russia, utilizing interests that are similar in a realistic way to make this world a safer place and get off this dangerous hostility with Russia.

The American people should be the one to decide which direction the Supreme Court will go.

Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.

Know when cities and states refuse to help enforce immigration laws, our nation is less safe.

My great-great-great-grandfather or something, I think his father came before him; but, in the 1840s, he was a circuit-riding Baptist preacher.

This country does not punish its political enemies. What this country ensures is that no one is above the law.

Trump has a way of driving a message so people hear it.

The largest untapped constituency in American politics are the 300 million American citizens who have been completely left out of the immigration debate.

I have never used the word ‘boy’ to describe a black, nor would I tolerate it in my office.

I did not have any private meetings nor do I recall any conversations with any Russian officials at the Mayflower Hotel.

I do think it’s a real problem when we have ‘Black Lives Matter’ making statements that are really radical, that are absolutely false.

I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks.

I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.

It is time to stand strong for the American people. It is time to champion the interests of those constantly neglected on the question of immigration: the men and women and children we represent – the citizens of this country to whom we owe our ultimate allegiance.

The caricature of me in 1986 was not correct. I do not harbor the kind of animosity and race-based discrimination ideas that I was accused of. I did not.

You pay a price when you have an objective sentencing system. That is, nothing is perfect.