John Ashcroft Quotes - Page 2

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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.

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  Rights, Effort, Scary

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• I think all we should legislate is morality.

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  Thinking, Morality, Should

  "Son of a Preacher Man / How John Ashcroft's religion shapes his public service" by Vicki Haddock, www.sfgate.com. August 4, 2002.

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• The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime

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  Suicide, Punishment, Way

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• Civilized people - Muslims, Christians and Jews - all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator.

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  Christian, People, Scary

  Remarks addressed to the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, February 19, 2002.

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• In this new war, our enemy's platoons infiltrate our borders, quietly blending in with visiting tourists, students, and workers. They move unnoticed through our cities, neighborhoods, and public spaces. They wear no uniforms. Their camouflage is not forest green, but rather it is the color of common street clothing. Their tactics rely on evading recognition at the border and escaping detection within the United States. Their terrorist mission is to defeat America, destroy our values and kill innocent people.

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  War, Moving, Color

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• Every medium by which people communicate can be subject to exploitation by those with illegal intentions. Nevertheless, this is no reason to hand Big Brother the keys to unlock our e-mail diaries, open our ATM records, read our medical records, or translate our international communications.

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  Brother, Communication, Hands

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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."

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  Country, Justice, Would Be

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

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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.

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  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.

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  Reality, Faces, Elements

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

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• Leaders select noble objectives and pursue them with such intensity that others join them. ... The greatest of all leaders from this perspective was Jesus Christ. ....May your choices be so powerful and magnetic that you'll draw people toward life (Duet. 30:19, ...therefore choose life.-) rather than death, blessing rather than cursing.

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  Jesus, Powerful, Blessing

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• Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.

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  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

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  Democracy, Way, Changed

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

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  Effort, Needs, Terrorism

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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.

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  Godly, America, Scary

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

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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.

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  Government, Scary, Honor

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

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  Information, Usa Patriot Act, Bases

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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.

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  Believe, Differences, Justice

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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.

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  Needs, Agents, Way

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

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  Play, Half, Court

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

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  Mother, Father, Cooperation

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• People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

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  Atheist, People, Atheism

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• Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

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  Law, Privacy, Constitution

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• The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority

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  Long, Priorities, Fbi

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• It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.

  John Ashcroft

  Ideas, Waiting, Helping

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• The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States

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  Usa, Liberty, United States

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