How many thousands of lives would be saved if we enforced our immigration laws, our guns laws, and our drug laws? Public safety is not being held hostage by the 'gun lobby,' but by the open borders lobby and the anti-law enforcement lobby.

In America, the Supreme Court and the American people believe no one is above the law.

Know when cities and states refuse to help enforce immigration laws, our nation is less safe.

I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.

Congress has taken an action now that makes it absolutely improper and illegal to use waterboarding... or any other form of torture by our military and by our other departments and agencies.

Republicans do not believe in identity politics.

The caricature of me in 1986 was not correct. I do not harbor the kind of animosity and race-based discrimination ideas that I was accused of. I did not.

After years of mass immigration, falling wages, and surging joblessness, isn't it time we focused on the needs of the people living here today? Isn't it time we got our own people back to work?

It is clear that IDEA '97 not only undermines the educational process, it also undermines the authority of educators.

We need to resist the temptation to create more entitlements and more entitlements, which is one of the reasons we are heading recklessly toward fiscal crisis.

I recall saying that civil rights organizations, when they demand more than is legitimate, it hurts their position.

It is a core principle that prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious readily provable offense.

I have supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality, and fairness for all.

I am pleased to endorse Donald Trump for the presidency of the United States.

You don't have a constitutional right or a moral right to demand entry into any country.

My previous 15 years working in the Department of Justice were extraordinarily fulfilling. I love the Department, its people and its mission. I can think of no greater honor than to lead them.

You pay a price when you have an objective sentencing system. That is, nothing is perfect.

In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.

Iraq assumes responsibility for its own future... They have got to step up.

If we can get this economy moving and quit doing the things that prohibit growth, Alabama... can sustain that growth.

The elite denizens of Washington and Wall Street scorn and mock the good and decent people of this country for wanting their laws enforced and their communities protected.

As Washington prospers, workers suffer.

I'm a big fan of the DEA.

I will not vote for - and no senator should vote for - anyone who will not render justice impartially.

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.