Top 35 Jeff Sessions Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “In my family, we were not involved in politics at all.”

— Jeff Sessions

2. “The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation’s security.”

— Jeff Sessions

3. “I went to law school at Alabama and I grew up a loyal Auburn fan. I’m one of the few that wrestles with those issues sometimes, but we’re really proud of them. Like the University of Alabama has almost doubled its enrollment.”

— Jeff Sessions

4. “Encouraging self-sufficiency must be a bedrock for our immigration policy, with the goal of reducing poverty, strengthening the family, and promoting our economic values. But Administration officials and their policies are working actively against this goal.”

— Jeff Sessions

5. “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.”

— Jeff Sessions

6. “I’m against TPP and I’m going to oppose it.”

— Jeff Sessions

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

— Jeff Sessions

8. “All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That’s the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.”

— Jeff Sessions

9. “Frank Johnson was recognized as one of the great federal judges of American history, I suppose. He was a law-and-order judge. He was a classical, I think, conservative. But he believed that civil rights provided in the Constitution applied to everybody.”

— Jeff Sessions

10. “Ending the lawlessness at the border? I don’t believe a fourth-generation Hispanic thinks that’s evil. I don’t think an African American thinks there’s anything wrong with protecting their jobs for a change.”

— Jeff Sessions

11. “I guess maybe the only time I met George Wallace was when – at a boy scout meeting in Montgomery, and he met 10 or 15 of us from different areas. I’m not sure why I was there.”

— Jeff Sessions

12. “My father never ran for office or supported anybody for office, and was not engaged in that at all. But I think people throughout the area were just in a constant state of tension – I mean, adults.”

— Jeff Sessions

13. “I think it’s an honorable thing that Donald Trump is doing.”

— Jeff Sessions

14. “There’s a lot of overconfidence about this bill. We’re going to expose it. It will not pass.”

— Jeff Sessions

15. “Donald Trump believed that the whole history of trade agreements, most of which I’ve supported over the years, have not been effective, and I’ve come to believe he’s right.”

— Jeff Sessions

16. “We know that a ready amnesty tends to be an invitation to more illegal entries.”

— Jeff Sessions

17. “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.”

— Jeff Sessions

18. “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.”

— Jeff Sessions

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

— Jeff Sessions

20. “At least 99.92% of illegal immigrants and visa overstays without known crimes on their records did not face removal.”

— Jeff Sessions

21. “Donald Trump is saying the right thing. We’re bringing in so much labor, it’s pulling down working people.”

— Jeff Sessions

22. “We don’t pay judges to think; we pay judges to rule on the law.”

— Jeff Sessions

23. “Because a person chooses to leave their home country and come to the United States does not necessarily mean they have the right to demand that their father or their other extended family members be allowed to come if they don’t otherwise meet the standard.”

— Jeff Sessions

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

— Jeff Sessions

25. “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.”

— Jeff Sessions

26. “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.”

— Jeff Sessions

27. “Coming out of the anti – coming out of the Republican heritage of Abraham Lincoln, Frank Johnson could see it more clearly than Alabamians would, which led to the big confrontations between Frank Johnson and George Wallace.”

— Jeff Sessions

28. “We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the most part.”

— Jeff Sessions

29. “Bin Laden, who was in his country, attacked and damaged our Pentagon, and killed our soldiers right out here at the Pentagon. But his pentagon no longer exists. It is rubble.”

— Jeff Sessions

30. “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.”

— Jeff Sessions

31. “People of my generation knew we needed to move beyond that, the racial division and segregation and unsustainable social relations, that were unfair to millions of people. But it didn’t mean that we were going to become a big government liberal.”

— Jeff Sessions

32. “People react not very wisely sometimes.”

— Jeff Sessions

33. “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.”

— Jeff Sessions

34. “I concluded that the trade agreements weren’t working as promised, and was depreciating the wages and the manufacturing base, and the jobs of Americans, and that both needed to change, and Donald Trump was out there. So I went to his rally.”

— Jeff Sessions

35. “I think that may have been the biggest rally Donald Trump had, and he had the cap that said “Make American Great Again.” So I thought that was – I liked that. We do need to make American great again, and I put his hat on for a little bit.”

— Jeff Sessions

36. “The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace – we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.”

— Jeff Sessions

37. “I didn’t endorse Donald Trump but I thanked him for coming, thanked him for raising issues that were important, thanked him for talking about immigration and considering the views that we had worked on for a number of years, on what a good immigration policy should be.”

— Jeff Sessions

38. “People are not doing well financially. I mean, wages are down from 2000. They’re down from 2007. 2000 – down. Not going – they’re below what they were in 2000. People are hurting. Things aren’t going well for them.”

— Jeff Sessions