Jeff Sessions Quotes (68 Quotes)

In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.

I've seen it time and time again, people do not testify against innocent people, they, reluctantly, only testify against guilty people.

It's time to go and put this problem on the table and deal with it. If he can't meet that challenge, maybe he's not the person for the job.

I am disappointed that the Democratic leader Harry Reid has apparently urged his colleagues to vote no on this nomination. ... I think it may affect votes on the floor to make this a leadership issue.

I was uneasy about it, and I just explained my unease, ... I shared with Dan my observations, the good and the bad. I think the American people at this point in time would desire a person who is steeped in constitutional jurisprudence, particularly the people who supported President Bush.

This is a terrible idea. It will add expense throughout the system and will not benefit patients who need it when they need it.

This may be, I hope, a turning point in our legal system,

We have a little bit of a problem now with confidence in that commission, ... For her to continue to play a key role in it when she herself really should be one of the people being reviewed is difficult for me to swallow.

Chief Justice Rehnquist understood that liberty requires order and further that our Constitution always recognizes that fact,

I have great confidence in her integrity and legal skills, but her judicial philosophy is not that well known. I think there will be some nervousness among grass-roots Americans who are unhappy with the activist tendency of the court, ... A lot will depend on how she testifies and how her philosophy of the law is revealed.

After 911, the President of the United States was a challenged leader. He faced difficult times. We lost 3,000 people. Some decisions had to be made. He decided that business as usual would not continue and the United States was going to have to take a leadership role against terrorism.

We need to give them the Justice Department as much power as we can without eroding fundamental liberties.

But one Republican said he thought such procedural fights were losing political causes for both parties. I don't think it gets any of us anywhere, ... I think the country is uneasy now, and I think it is important that the government, Republicans and Democrats, listen to what they are asking about.

Ambassador Negroponte will not replace Paul Bremer. The new government in Iraq will replace Bremer. Negroponte will be our ambassador.

If a decision is wrong, it ought to be reversed, in my way of thinking.

We've put our treasure and our moral authority and the lives of our soldiers to this effort. A lot of Americans wish we'd never been there and it hadn't cost so much ... but that's not the question.

The good news is that the BRAC process has now confirmed Anniston as the department's Center for Industrial and Technical Excellence. This means that Anniston's mission and work force have been affirmed and the depot remains poised to continue to enhance its workload and employees,

He's a superb nominee. I can't imagine senators will find any circumstances in his background that would justify denying him a vote.

We have all the hallmarks here of a rush to spend money. We have got to be careful that this does not become a feeding frenzy. ... This is our grandchildren's money.

Iraq assumes responsibility for its own future... They have got to step up.

Some committee members are not so sure. It's going to be tough for her, and anything that appears to be a mistake, you know, is not good, ... This is an uphill road all the way.

has the very natural qualities to make a superior judge.

I want a classical judge who does not allow their personal views or social views to impact their decision-making process,

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.

I could not be more pleased and proud that Judge Bill Pryor was part of the group that were agreed upon by those members of the Senate to get an up-or-down vote. Bill Pryor is the kind of judge America ought to have.

From Mobile to Louisiana, we have quite a number of refineries, and those are significant, Sessions said. And if they're shut down for an appreciable amount of time, we could indeed see further spiking in the short term of gasoline.

I have been of the view that if we in Congress can't balance the budget, we shouldn't approve a pay raise.

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.

I would suggest we'd better spend our time investigating how a top-secret program such as this, a program fully shared with congressional leaders, was breached and provided to the media and revealed throughout the world.

I am uneasy about where we are, ... Some conservative people are concerned. That is pretty obvious.

We, in this country, have believed by a substantial majority that cloning human beings is not right and should not be done. We certainly have all seen the rejections of Nazi Germany's abuses of science. As a society and a nation, there ought to be some limit on what we can allow or should allow.

I think conservatives do not have confidence she has a well-formed judicial philosophy, and they are afraid she might drift and be a part of the activist group like Justice Souter has, ... She will need to articulate a vision of the Constitution and the role of a judge that is sound or she could be in trouble with the Republican senators.

My advice to you is this. Keep your famous good humor, take your time, and explain the procedural posture of the cases and exactly how you ruled as a judge, or the position you took as a lawyer. Americans know these matters are often complex and will appreciate your answers.

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

I don't know what his views are about Roe v. Wade , but groups have raised a lot of money to oppose this nominee, ... It is incumbent on these senators not to let these groups decide it, and listen to what he says. He has been exceptional in every way.

The people rightly demand judges who follow, not make, law,

I feel strongly that the military deserves a lot of credit here.

I think it's clear to me that what - when I look at the tea party, it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, one-third independents. But 100 percent of them are sure that the agenda that is taking place in Washington, D.C., is about extremism and is about bankrupting this country and every state within this country.

We should do a good enforcement bill and leave the administration to execute it, then in the meantime, talk seriously about what we want to do about the future.

There's a legitimate concern among those who have really cared about the judiciary that she does not have a sufficient and well-formed philosophy of adjudication,

Are we going to demand that they come before the Senate Judiciary Committee and renounce their faith before they become a federal judge

The group who spoke here the other day did not represent the American ideals of freedom, liberty and spreading that around the world. I frankly don't know what they represent, other than to blame America first.

And all I asked our lawyers to do was to be honest, to present the evidence they have, and ask the judge to sentence appropriately within the guidelines, and they were narrow.

I might have liked a different type nominee myself, but that's the president's choice.

If a lawyer was too aggressive in requiring deletion of things they shouldn't have, Congress should look into that.

This is so massive and the potential for fraud and abuse is so great, we are going to have to watch it, ... The government will spend your money before you know what happened to it.

This is a very risky thing. We should complete this work today.

That's just an excuse to delay. I'll be there. I live in Mobile. I will be ready to go forward,

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.

When this much money gets put out this fast, there's a real danger,