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Former Governor Of Missouri Inspirational Quotes (60)

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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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Public education is an investment in our future.
Matt Blunt
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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
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Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nations Governors highest priority.
Mel Carnahan
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Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.
Mel Carnahan
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The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.
John Ashcroft
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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
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What did John Ashcroft say about moderates, he said, quote, there are two things you find in the middle of the road, a moderate and a dead skunk and I don't want to be either.
John Ashcroft
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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.
John Ashcroft
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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
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Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.
Matt Blunt
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Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.
Matt Blunt
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Our priorities should be: recognizing the voice of God and responding to the voice of God.
John Ashcroft
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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
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Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.
John Ashcroft
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The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent.
Matt Blunt
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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
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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
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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
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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
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For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.
Mel Carnahan
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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
John Ashcroft
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There's nothing more rewarding or important than to be involved in God's work of redemption.
John Ashcroft
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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
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