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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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I'm against TPP and I'm going to oppose it.
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I believe that President [George W.] Bush was correct. I thought that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and I supported him steadfastly, and once we committed we should see it through.
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People react not very wisely sometimes.
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My father had a country store and then later, when I was 10 or 12, sold it and bought a farm equipment dealership in nearby Camden.
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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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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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In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.
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Amnesty will not help balance our budget ... In fact, a large-scale amnesty is likely to add trillions of dollars to the debt over time, accelerate Medicare's and Social Security's slide into insolvency and put enormous strain on our public-assistance programs.
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I think Donald Trump's history has shown that this was a very problematic thing. There were so many ways Iraq could have gone awry once we started, and I don't think most of us spend enough time considering the dangers.
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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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I am totally committed to maintaining the freedom and equality America has to provide to every citizen.
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Occasionally [Donald Trump] says things that are too strong and upsets people, and I think he'll work to do better on that.
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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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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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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 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've said many times - I told William Buckley, I said, You warped my mind and I never recovered from it. That was a principled, lawful understanding of the role of government, the Constitution. It was not based on racism, on demagoguery, but on strong principles that - which, consistent with the American heritage and our strength for the futur
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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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