Congress has the responsibility to ensure that any international trade agreement entered into by the United States must serve the national interest, not merely the interests of those crafting the proposal in secret.

If we want an international trade deal that advances the interests of our own people, then perhaps we don't need a 'fast-track' but a regular track: where the president sends us any proposal he deems worthy, and we review it on its own merits.

The largest untapped constituency in American politics are the 300 million American citizens who have been completely left out of the immigration debate.

Donors don't win elections; voters win elections.

Honest people can disagree on policy. But where there can be no honest disagreement is the need to change our nation's debt course.

The massive debt we have racked up to finance our wasteful government is pulling down growth today. Gross debt over 90 percent of GDP weakens growth now. Not tomorrow - now.

I think we have a high responsibility to base any criticisms that we have on a fair and honest statement of the facts, and that nominees should not be subjected to distortions of their record, taking things they've done out of context.

I told Donald Trump, 'This isn't a campaign, this is a movement.' Look at what's happening. The American people are not happy with their government.

We are in a movement that must not fade away. The bosses are you. The people in Washington are public servants, and they serve you.

We have a toxic ideology, hopefully very small, within Islam; certainly most people, most Muslims, don't agree with this violent, jihadist approach.

The elites have become international, and they've ceased to have a primary loyalty to the nation-state.

Scripture says, 'He didn't know the Lord, didn't respect the Lord, but the Lord used him to advance his kingdom.' I just believe that at this point in history, Trump will defend religious faith. I talk to him about that.

The Senate cannot confirm an individual... who would support a scheme that violates our Constitution, eviscerates congressional authority.

I remain deeply concerned about falling wages and the lack of good jobs for Americans. Too many of our citizens are either stuck in place or falling behind, and too often their needs are forgotten.

The American people should be the one to decide which direction the Supreme Court will go.

It is time to stand strong for the American people. It is time to champion the interests of those constantly neglected on the question of immigration: the men and women and children we represent - the citizens of this country to whom we owe our ultimate allegiance.

The basic social contract is that citizens agree to follow the law, pay their taxes, and devote their love and loyalty to their country, and in exchange, the nation commits to preserve and protect and serve their interests, safeguard their freedom, and return to them in kind their first allegiance and loyalty.

I was the youngest of about nine boys in the neighborhood, and we played ball all the time, and I looked up to them, and they let me play around with them, and we just had a good time.

Hybart is a little community I grew up in, so it was just a wonderful time in those years.

My great-great-great-grandfather or something, I think his father came before him; but, in the 1840s, he was a circuit-riding Baptist preacher.

My father never ran for office or supported anybody for office, and was not engaged in that at all.

I am humbled to have been asked by President-elect Trump to serve as Attorney General of the United States.

Donald Trump is right. We need to figure out a way to end this cycle of hostility that's putting this country at risk, costing us billions of dollars in defense, and creating hostility that should not exist.

The question is, can we have a more peaceful, effective relationship with Russia, utilizing interests that are similar in a realistic way to make this world a safer place and get off this dangerous hostility with Russia.

Trump has a way of driving a message so people hear it.

My belief is that the nation-state remains the one entity that can function, the one entity that can demand sacrifice from its constituents in the national interest.

I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks.

I'm often loose with my tongue. I may have said something about the NAACP being un-American or Communist, but I meant no harm by it.

Is our national goal to place as many people on welfare, food stamp support, as we can possibly put on that program? Is that our goal? Is that a moral vision for the United States of America, just to see how many people we can place in a situation where they're dependent on the federal government for their food?

I think people are free to marry any way they want to. But churches are free to set standards for marriage.

Our nation needs to say clearly once again that using drugs will destroy your life.

I cannot and will not violate my duty to protect confidential communications with the president.

I think it is likely that within every department there are some officers who subtly, if not otherwise, are biased in the way they go about enforcing the law. I think that is just life. We know that to be true.

It is not legitimate that an American citizen feels that they are more likely to be arrested or held to account or stopped and searched than someone else simply because of the color of their skin.

I do think it's a real problem when we have 'Black Lives Matter' making statements that are really radical, that are absolutely false.

I like to discuss things. I am open: I like to discuss with liberals better than I do with conservatives.

All of us know that when the confidence of a private conversation is breached by a party with ulterior motives or one who simply misunderstands what the speaker says or means, the speaker can always be embarrassed.

At a time when this country needs a good military, the last thing we need to be doing is turning out of our military of people who served and then bringing in people who are illegally in the country.

All of us who work in law enforcement want to keep people safe. That is the heart of our jobs; it is what drives us every day.

I worry that we risk losing the hard-won gains that have made America a safer and more prosperous place.

This country does not punish its political enemies. What this country ensures is that no one is above the law.