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Former Governor Of Missouri Inspirational Quotes (59)

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This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.
John Ashcroft
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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
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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
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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.
John Ashcroft
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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
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The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home.
Matt Blunt
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We are aware that many national farm organizations are putting forth various plans to provide both short- and long-term relief to our nation's agricultural producers. While we believe long-term solutions are essential, the current situation demands a more immediate response.
Mel Carnahan
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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
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The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.
John Ashcroft
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Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause.
Mel Carnahan
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I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.
John Ashcroft
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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
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We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.
Matt Blunt
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The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.
John Ashcroft
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In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent election was no exception. Now we inaugurate a new government on a day that transcends any one individual or any one party.
Matt Blunt
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Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.
Mel Carnahan
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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
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The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'.
John Ashcroft
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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
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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
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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
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We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort
John Ashcroft
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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
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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
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