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John Ashcroft
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: May 9
Former Governor Of Missouri
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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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The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'.
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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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We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort
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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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There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism
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The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
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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.
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Only God, no other kings!
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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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