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I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.

John Ashcroft

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John Ashcroft
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: May 9
Former Governor Of Missouri
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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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Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.
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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 state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.
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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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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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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 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 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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There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism
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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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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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The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.
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This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.
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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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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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Only God, no other kings!
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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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