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The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'.
John Ashcroft
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John Ashcroft
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: May 9
Former Governor Of Missouri
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John David 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.
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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
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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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[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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The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.
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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
There's nothing more rewarding or important than to be involved in God's work of redemption.
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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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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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Only God, no other kings!
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Our priorities should be: recognizing the voice of God and responding to the voice of God.
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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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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
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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