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Jeff Sessions
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 24
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We can never go back.
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We've seen what happened in Libya, what a disaster that's been driven by Hillary Clinton, and the disaster in Syria and almost disaster in Egypt. What a close call that's been. We're not out of the woods yet with Egypt.
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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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At least 99.92% of illegal immigrants and visa overstays without known crimes on their records did not face removal.
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We need more American energy. It keeps wealth at home. It keeps our wealth from ending up in Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. It creates jobs at home.
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I understand the lifelong scars born by women who are victims of assault and abuse.
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I would like to think that we are on a move that could be like [Ronald] Reagan. Reagan appealed to the average working American: their patriotism, their love of country, the belief in their schools and their communities and their loyalty to the military and police, and the things that create stability and a good life.
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I never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the [Donald] Trump campaign.
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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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Those policies - more taxes, more regulation, more debt, more spending, more government - will make American worse. It just will, in my view.
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Kissinger-type foreign policy is clearly, in my view, the proper tilt for us in the future, and he [Donald Trump] gets it. And some of our members, I guess, have been so deeply committed to the [George W.] Bush agenda, the neo-conservative agenda, that it's harder for them to acknowledge that. But I acknowledge it.
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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 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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More taxes, more regulation, more Washington domination, more debt. Those things are not the future for America. They will never work.
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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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Donald Trump can improve and get better as he goes along, and I think he will.
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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 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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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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I'm against TPP and I'm going to oppose it.
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