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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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Jeff Sessions
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 24
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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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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 think Donald Trump is moving to - and will continue to move to the economic argument, as to why what he's doing is - represents a commitment to stand up to big business, to international corporations who favor more immigration and lower wages - that's what they favor - and a defense of the interest of the American people who go to work every day.
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Some of my best friends are FBI agents.
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We can never go back.
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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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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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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 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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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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[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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I think if a candidate ran for office in most states in the country, if his opponent, or her opponent was an effective advocate against the TPP and could show, as I think we will be able to show, it's detrimental to working Americans, I think they would have a hard time getting elected.
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I never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the [Donald] Trump campaign.
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Winston County was a pocket of Republicans. Even in the depression days, when Democrats dominated Alabama, Winston County remained a Republican county and all the elected officials were Republican.
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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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We're going to create factory jobs for recent immigrants, and Donald Trump is going to take care of them. That's why his numbers, even right now, in this negative period, are holding pretty strong, because people want a leader that's going to make this country great again and have a strong economy.
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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've supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality and fairness for all.
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I'm against TPP and I'm going to oppose it.
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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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