Jeff Sessions Quotes

Undoubtedly, the biggest misconception about me is that I'm some staunch conservative, blind, rightwing hardcore Republican who doesn't want to hear anything from the other side.

The big breakthrough for me was, once I stopped disliking conservatives and could actually see what they were right about, they showed me a lot of things that liberals were wrong about. But at the same time, I think there are some things that liberals are right about that conservatives have trouble seeing.

Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?

I'm not a conservative of any kind.

Don't hang out with the conservatives. They're boring. Hang out with the liberals. They're more interesting.

If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart, and if you're not a conservative at 40, you have no brain.

Everybody in Mariposa is neither liberal or conservative or else is both.

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.

There's no such thing as a moderate. A moderate is just a liberal disguise, and they are doing everything they can to derail the conservative agenda

All Fundamentalists are conservatives, but not all conservatives are Fundamentalists. The best conservatives can often give lessons to the liberals in true liberality of spirit, but the Fundamentalist program is essentially illiberal and intolerant.

One of the big differences between liberals and conservatives is that liberals really, really want to believe that people want to listen to facts.

I view myself more as a traditionalist than a conservative. But I like the traditions, so I tend to try to keep them alive. But I'm open to any kind of political thought - I don't care - I have people that I don't agree with, and I have good friends I don't agree with, but for me personally, I'm more comfortable with the traditional stuff.

I'm not a reactionary.

Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

It's really important, whether you're a conservative or a liberal, to always challenge the conventional wisdom, which is what I've tried to do in all my work.

Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

I think that liberals need to grow up.

I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'

I believe in all the qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events in our country's history, starting with the Salem witch trials, where the conservative view was that they're witches and should be burned at the stake, and the liberal view was there's no such thing as witches.

If you want to take my guns away from me, and you’re all for murdering fetuses, and love it when homosexuals marry each other, and want to give them kitchen appliances at their showers, and you’re for the poor, you’re a liberal. If you are against those perversions and for the rich, you’re a conservative. What could be simpler?

Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and give them to farmers and insolvent banks.

You know that no son of mine could be a goddamn liberal.

Liberal institutions soon cease from being liberal the moment they are soundly established.