John Ashcroft Quotes

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• We have to think outside the box, inside the Constitution, find ways to do things that will elevate our security, reduce the risk of the incidence of terrorist attack

  John Ashcroft

  Thinking, Risk, Way

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• I feel the best way to ensure Americans' freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible. Only through wiretaps, illegal searches and seizures, unfettered government intrusion, a controlled media and a complete crackdown on free speech can we ensure the liberties of all people.

  John Ashcroft

  Stupid, Government, Media

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• To those who scare peace loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends.

  John Ashcroft

  America, Giving, People

  "Ashcroft: Critics of new terror measures undermine effort", December 7, 2001.

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• Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.

  John Ashcroft

  Father, Gun, Rights

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• The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'.

  John Ashcroft

  Business, Mistake, Boss

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• Christianity is a faith in which God sent his Son to die for you.

  John Ashcroft

  Son, Christianity, Dies

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• To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.

  John Ashcroft

  Quitting, Embarrassing, Knocked Down

  "Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice". Book by John Ashcroft, 2006.

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• Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

  John Ashcroft

  World, Capacity, Remains

  "Ashcroft defends FBI's Mueller". www.cnn.com. May 31, 2002.

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• Doing what is right in the face of adversity is not always easy or popular. Critics may assail you, but the critics don't always realize what they don't know or don't understand, because they don't have access to all the information.

  John Ashcroft

  Adversity, May, Information

  "Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice". Book by John Ashcroft, 2006.

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• Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.

  John Ashcroft

  Jesus, Kings, Character

  John Ashcroft´s Speech at Bob Jones University, www.nytimes.com. January 13, 2001.

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• By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act.

  John Ashcroft

  Wall, Law, Community

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• We must embrace the power of faith, but we must never confuse politics and piety. For me, may I say that it is against my religion to impose my religion.

  John Ashcroft

  Scary, May, Embrace

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• There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism

  John Ashcroft

  Priorities, Prevention, Terrorism

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• Our priorities should be: recognizing the voice of God and responding to the voice of God.

  John Ashcroft

  Voice, Priorities, Should

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• Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk

  John Ashcroft

  Risk, September 11, World

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• We are a nation called to defend freedom - a tradition that is not a grant of any government or document, but is an endowment from God.

  John Ashcroft

  Government, Scary, Tradition

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• There's nothing more rewarding or important than to be involved in God's work of redemption.

  John Ashcroft

  Important, Redemption, Involved

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• Do not allow your sorrow or your rage to become hostility toward people on the basis of their ethnicity or their religious views. That is unacceptable; it is out of bounds, and if you break the law, we will prosecute you for it.

  John Ashcroft

  Religious, Views, Ethnicity

  John Ashcroft (2006). “Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice”, p.113, Hachette UK

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• A trustee has a responsibility to guard the assets of others with a higher degree of care than he does his own.

  John Ashcroft

  Responsibility, Degrees, Doe

  "Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice". Book by John Ashcroft, 2006.

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• What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world

  John Ashcroft

  September 11, World, Unthinkable

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• An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

  John Ashcroft

  Fbi Agents, People, Surfing

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• The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.

  John Ashcroft

  Fighting, Rights, Citizens

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• The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention.

  John Ashcroft

  America, Needs, Culture

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• [Ashcroft vowed to] spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag.

  John Ashcroft

  Rights, Effort, Scary

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• I decided this early on at Justice: if the traditional way was the most effective way of doing something, then we'd maintain it. But if it was not functioning at optimum levels, we would be doing the country a disservice by continuing to do things "like we've always done them."

  John Ashcroft

  Country, Justice, Would Be

  "Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice". Book by John Ashcroft, 2006.

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