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• The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them

  John Ashcroft

  Children, Challenges, Serious

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• A calculated, malignant, devastating evil has arisen in our world, ... Civilization cannot ignore the wrongs that have been done. America will not tolerate their being repeated. Justice has a new mission, a new calling against an old evil.

  John Ashcroft

  Civilization, America, Our World

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• Sometimes the act of walking in the face of the elements helps us come to grips with reality. Or it simply exhausts us to the point of seeing the futility of resisting reality and the futility of denial.

  John Ashcroft

  Reality, Faces, Elements

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

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• How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.

  John Ashcroft

  Groups, Looks, Way

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

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• Simply put, international terrorism made international cooperation mandatory rather than elective. Collective security has become the only real security against the hydra-headed monster of international terror.

  John Ashcroft

  Real, Hydra, Monsters

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

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• The goal of terror is not traditional territorial enlargement; rather the war target of the terrorist is the dismemberment of the will of the community it terrorizes.

  John Ashcroft

  War, Goal, Community

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

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• Frankly, the president, during the first opportunity I had to be in a Cabinet meeting, before we started the meeting, he said, Folks, before we begin this meeting, I'm going to call on General Ashcroft and ask him invite the wisdom and presence of God in what we do. And I thought to myself how ashamed I'd been that so many times in my life I had entered upon great important tasks and I had cheated myself and those that I had served of a blessing.

  John Ashcroft

  Blessing, Opportunity, Scary

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• There is a concern that the Internet could be used to commit crimes and that advanced encryption could disguise such activity. However, we do not provide the government with phone jacks outside our homes for unlimited wiretaps. Why, then, should we grant government the Orwellian capability to listen at will and in real time to our communications across the Web?

  John Ashcroft

  Real, Communication, Home

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• The charges of the hysterics are revealed for what they are: castles in the air built on misrepresentation, supported by unfounded fear, held aloft by hysteria.

  John Ashcroft

  Air, Hysteria, Castles

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• The transmission of values from one generation to the next is the single most important task of the society. ...What am I doing to shape the values of the society?

  John Ashcroft

  Important, Tasks, Generations

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• Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.

  John Ashcroft

  Weapons, Regulation, Ownership

  "Ashcroft pledges to defend Brady law". www.cnn.com. May 31, 2002.

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• We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed

  John Ashcroft

  Democracy, Way, Changed

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• We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort

  John Ashcroft

  Effort, Needs, Terrorism

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• If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.

  John Ashcroft

  Mother, Father, Cooperation

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• I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.

  John Ashcroft

  Play, Half, Court

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• Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose.

  John Ashcroft

  Needs, Agents, Way

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• All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we're doing something that makes a difference. I believe we're doing that in the Justice Department.

  John Ashcroft

  Believe, Differences, Justice

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• The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.

  John Ashcroft

  Information, Usa Patriot Act, Bases

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• We're going to protect and honor the Constitution, and I don't have the authority to set it aside.... If I had the authority to set it aside, this would be a dangerous government, and I wouldn't respect it.

  John Ashcroft

  Government, Scary, Honor

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• If America is to be great in the future, it will be if we understand that our source is not civic and temporal, but our source is godly and eternal.

  John Ashcroft

  Godly, America, Scary

  Speech at Bob Jones University, www.nytimes.com. January 13, 2001.

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• [The war on terrorism isn't a religious war, but] a defense of our right to make moral choices, to seek fellowship with God that is chosen and not commanded.

  John Ashcroft

  Religious, War, Choices

  "The gospel according to John (Ashcroft)" by Rob Morse, www.sfgate.com. February 22, 2002.

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• For the first time in a long time, our leaders in Washington understand what Americans of all religious backgrounds have long held to be true: through faith, all things are possible.

  John Ashcroft

  Religious, Long, Leader

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• Any citizen who's offended ... can leave the service.

  John Ashcroft

  Scary, Citizens, Offended

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• The new rule says that the FBI has the right to go to public places on the same terms and conditions as other members of the public for counterterrorism purposes.

  John Ashcroft

  Purpose, Terrorism, Members

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

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• We must not descend to the level of those who perpetrated Tuesday's violence by targeting individuals based on their race, their religion, or their national origin. Such reports of violence and threats are in direct opposition to the very principles and laws of the United States and will not be tolerated.

  John Ashcroft

  Powerful, Race, Law

  "America Under Attack: Justice Department Briefing". CNN Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. September 13, 2001.

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