CRIME/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Mr. Sessions credits tough mandatory sentences with helping reduce crime. He has criticized the Obama administration for embracing more lenient sentencing policies. [In Senator Sessions Senate Speech on 10-13-15 he said] ‘How many people do you know that are likely to take a gun and would murder somebody? The more of those that are in jail serving time, the less people are going to get murdered. It’s mathematics.’ ”
– “Jeff Sessions, in His Own Words,” New York Times, Jan 8, 2017, Matt Apuzzo, 10/13/2015