287 Quotes by Jeff Sessions

  • Author Jeff Sessions
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    Coming out of the anti – coming out of the Republican heritage of Abraham Lincoln, Frank Johnson could see it more clearly than Alabamians would, which led to the big confrontations between Frank Johnson and George Wallace.

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    People of my generation knew we needed to move beyond that, the racial division and segregation and unsustainable social relations, that were unfair to millions of people. But it didn’t mean that we were going to become a big government liberal.

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    My father never ran for office or supported anybody for office, and was not engaged in that at all. But I think people throughout the area were just in a constant state of tension – I mean, adults.

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    Donald Trump believed that the whole history of trade agreements, most of which I’ve supported over the years, have not been effective, and I’ve come to believe he’s right.

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

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    We believe that people should wait their time, and people should be able to be accepted here – over a million a year – in an orderly process, not a disorderly process, and that we should not be rewarding those who violate the law, and making even harder for those who try to comply with the law.

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    I didn’t endorse Donald Trump but I thanked him for coming, thanked him for raising issues that were important, thanked him for talking about immigration and considering the views that we had worked on for a number of years, on what a good immigration policy should be.

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    I think if a candidate ran for office in most states in the country, if his opponent, or her opponent was an effective advocate against the TPP and could show, as I think we will be able to show, it’s detrimental to working Americans, I think they would have a hard time getting elected.

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    I concluded that the trade agreements weren’t working as promised, and was depreciating the wages and the manufacturing base, and the jobs of Americans, and that both needed to change, and Donald Trump was out there. So I went to his rally.

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