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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.

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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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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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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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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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 Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.
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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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Only God, no other kings!
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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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Our priorities should be: recognizing the voice of God and responding to the voice of God.
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There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism
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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 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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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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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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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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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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