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Encouraging self-sufficiency must be a bedrock for our immigration policy, with the goal of reducing poverty, strengthening the family, and promoting our economic values. But Administration officials and their policies are working actively against this goal.

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Jeff Sessions
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 24
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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 think the leaders in all parties tend to adjust to reality. They just have to or they won't remain in office.
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When a nation uses their improperly gained or intelligence-wise gained information to take policy positions that impact another nation's democracy or their approach to any issue, then that raises real serious matters.
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I never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the [Donald] Trump campaign.
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[Donald] Trump has made this a big issue. He's leading in Ohio. He's leading, right up there in Pennsylvania, 1-point difference, and people are responding because the people's instincts are correct. This is what I believe.
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When I present evidence, I expect the judge to hear and see all the evidence that gets presented.
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To every American, he [Donald Trump] is saying to them, You elect me and we're going to fix the lawlessness at this border.
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[Donald Trump] was a magnificent witness. The reporter, when asking me about his testimony, said, Sessions gushed about his testimony. But it was remarkable.
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I just want you to know that as a southerner, who actually saw discrimination and have no doubt it existed in a systematic and powerful and negative way to the people - great millions of people in the South, particularly, of America - I know that was wrong. I know we need to do better.
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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.
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[Donald Trump] said we're going to have a big door. He means lawful immigration will continue, but we're not going to allow the nation to be at risk in this fashion.
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I've supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality and fairness for all.
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In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.
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We should create an America in which it's - we can - Americans have a better chance to progress wages and job prospects, and we can do that.
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At least 99.92% of illegal immigrants and visa overstays without known crimes on their records did not face removal.
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People react not very wisely sometimes.
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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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[My father] was interested. He read the newspapers and read Time and U.S. News and World Report and people in stores would come along, you know, and they would talk politics.
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Donald Trump can improve and get better as he goes along, and I think he will.
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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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