Jeff Sessions Quotes

I have never used my office for anything other than the purpose in which I hold it - to represent the people who sent me to Washington.

I think there is a lot of activism and energy from people all over America, and some of them are being represented by members that appear to be ignoring their constituents.

A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

This year, we are going to take our government out of the hands of corporate special interests and put it back into the hands of Ohio families - where it belongs.

In the mother of parliaments, it is not too much to ask that our politicians stand up for all our best interests.

As things are now, no one can tell to whom members of Congress are responsible, except that it does not often appear to be to the people. Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.

I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful.

American politicians are responsive almost solely to the interests and desires of their rich constituents and interest groups that primarily represent big business.

Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry, so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government's justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course?

We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building, do not forget who we work for.

Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues.

Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.

We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

There seems to be something sacrosanct about big business.

Everyone else is represented in Washington by a powerful lobby ... But there is no lobby for the people.

I don't want to see this country run by big business and big labor.

The President [FDR] is willing to take what Congress will give him and Congress will give him only what big business is willing that he should have.

They [Congressmen] may ... consult and prefer the interests of their particular constituents when they come in conflict with any other particular or local interest, yet it is their first or highest duty, as representatives of the United States, to promote the general good.

Politicians get elected because of the immediate results demanded by their constituents, not the long-term structural arrangements debated by constitution-makers and political theorists.

My position is to listen to my constituents, learn from the best information available and ultimately make sound, rational decisions that are going to be beneficial to the people…

With the consent of the people, I will seek to continue service in Congress for the well-being of our state and our nation.

The Federal Communications Commission needs to listen and serve the American people, not special interests.

If the government and judiciary start working together then who will raise people's issues?

DeSantis can do the bidding of big business and big lobbyists and Donald Trump and his divisive rhetoric. I'm going to be here to do the business of the people of the state of Florida. That's the job of the governor of this state.