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The Republican Party, in many ways, grew up as a reaction to that [ segregation], and a lot of people have misunderstood that.

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Jeff Sessions
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 24
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[Donald] Trump is underestimated greatly in terms of his understanding and comprehension of the great issues facing America. He understands trade. He's got businesses all over the world. He understands currency and how manipulating currency can be damaging to America.
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I liked Donald's Trump speech on foreign policy. What he's showing is that his fundamental views are solid, and that there's an intellectual basis for this, an economic basis for what he's saying, and that can lead him to victory.
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I would acknowledge that [Paul] Ryan has some really good ideas about things, and I think they'll get together, like taxes. Larry Kudlow, Stephen Moore, they've been supportive of Ryan's tax view and now they're very supportive of [Donald] Trump's. So I think that's got potential.
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I guess maybe the only time I met George Wallace was when - at a boy scout meeting in Montgomery, and he met 10 or 15 of us from different areas. I'm not sure why I was there.
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We know that a ready amnesty tends to be an invitation to more illegal entries.
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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 understand Donald Trump's goals. That's why I supported him for president. I share his beliefs that we've got to do more about crime, more about illegal immigration, more about gangs and violence and it's an honor and a pleasure to be able to lead that effort.
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I grew up, really, in the country.When I was a kid there were three country stores, a railroad depot, and a post office.
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I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks.
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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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Donald Trump can improve and get better as he goes along, and I think he will.
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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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[Ronald Reagan] appealed to that group of [working American] people and we can do it again, because they've had, now, eight years of [Barak] Obama. Things have not gone well.
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[Donald] Trump is where the Republicans are, and if you're going to be a Republican leader you should be supportive of that.
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Thirty years people have been asking for a lawful system of immigration to end this lawlessness, and government on both parties have refused to give it to them.
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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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My parents, both of them had teachers in their family and were pretty well read. So my father voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower.
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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 is going to appeal better to African Americans, Hispanics, and others than previous Republican candidates because he's talking about what they want: a fair chance to have a better life economically.
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People react not very wisely sometimes.
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