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John Ashcroft

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John Ashcroft
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: May 9
Former Governor Of Missouri
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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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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 worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'.
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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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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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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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The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.
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I feel the best way to ensure Americans' freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible. Only through wiretaps, illegal searches and seizures, unfettered government intrusion, a controlled media and a complete crackdown on free speech can we ensure the liberties of all people.
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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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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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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 is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism
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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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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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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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[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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We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort
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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 necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
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