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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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'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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.