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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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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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There's nothing more rewarding or important than to be involved in God's work of redemption.
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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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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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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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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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I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.
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Only God, no other kings!
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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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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.
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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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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.
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This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.
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The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.
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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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Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.
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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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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.
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Our priorities should be: recognizing the voice of God and responding to the voice of God.
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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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