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The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'.

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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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The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.
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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.
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The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.
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Any citizen who's offended ... can leave the service.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Only God, no other kings!
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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
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This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.
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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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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.
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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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Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.
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Our priorities should be: recognizing the voice of God and responding to the voice of God.
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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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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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