Jeff Sessions Quotes

I well understand that the role of Attorney General is to enforce the law as it is, not as I would have it.

The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.

The president does not have the option of choosing which laws he will follow and which he will ignore.

My job is to take the law as it's given to me and enforce it and implement it faithfully.

I believe in enforcing the laws as written by the Legislature, as signed by the governor.

The Law is the Law!

Our whole system of self-government will crumble either if officials elect what laws they will enforce or citizens elect what laws they will support.

People expect that the law will be what the Supreme Court told them what the law was going to be.

At the end of the day, we must respect the rule of law in respective jurisdictions.

As attorney general, I don't get to pick and choose the laws I like and don't like.

Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.

Judges should interpret the law, not make it.

I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.

You might think otherwise, but it doesn't naturally follow that because a law has been passed by Congress and signed by the president, said law actually has to be implemented.

If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?

Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

I'm supposed to enforce the laws of the land.

All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the law as it is written by Congress and informed by precedent.

The President has no authority to direct anyone to disobey the law.

A chief executive doesn’t get to pick and choose which laws he will enforce.

Law enforcement does not ask an advantage in its struggle with the lawless. It asks only that the scales of justice be balanced. The cause of justice is not served when hardened criminals are allowed to go free through legal technicalities.

The laws of the United States must be executed. I have no discretionary power on this subject; my duty is emphatically pronounced in the Constitution.

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

All new laws, though penned with the greatest technical skill, and passed on the fullest and most mature deliberation, are considered as more or less obscure and equivocal, until their meaning be liquidated and ascertained by a series of particular discussions and adjudications.