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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.

John Ashcroft

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John Ashcroft
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: May 9
Former Governor Of Missouri
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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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There's nothing more rewarding or important than to be involved in God's work of redemption.
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This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.
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Any citizen who's offended ... can leave the service.
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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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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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I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.
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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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The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.
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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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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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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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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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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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The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.
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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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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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[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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