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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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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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Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.
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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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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 state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.
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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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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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We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed
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Any citizen who's offended ... can leave the service.
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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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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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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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I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.
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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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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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There's nothing more rewarding or important than to be involved in God's work of redemption.
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Only God, no other kings!
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The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.
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