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Jeff Sessions
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 24
Lawyer
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United States Senator
Selma
Alabama
Jefferson Sessions
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III
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Jefferson Beauregard Jeff Sessions III
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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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At least 99.92% of illegal immigrants and visa overstays without known crimes on their records did not face removal.
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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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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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[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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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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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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[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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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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There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends in the African-American community. They had right on their side. They conducted themselves in high standards, with courage and determination, and they were victorious. They overcame.
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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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Donald Trump is saying we're going to end the lawlessness at the border and we're going to push Mexico to do better. So there's been a reaction by the activist community to attack him.
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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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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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How is it appropriate for a judge ever to say that they will choose to see some facts and not others?
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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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I understand the lifelong scars born by women who are victims of assault and abuse.
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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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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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