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The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.

John Ashcroft

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John Ashcroft
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: May 9
Former Governor Of Missouri
Lawyer
Musician
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Chicago
Illinois
John David Ashcroft
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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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This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.
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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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[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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Any citizen who's offended ... can leave the service.
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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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There's nothing more rewarding or important than to be involved in God's work of redemption.
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Our priorities should be: recognizing the voice of God and responding to the voice of God.
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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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The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.
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Leaders select noble objectives and pursue them with such intensity that others join them. ... The greatest of all leaders from this perspective was Jesus Christ. ....May your choices be so powerful and magnetic that you'll draw people toward life (Duet. 30:19, ...therefore choose life.-) rather than death, blessing rather than cursing.
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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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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'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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If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
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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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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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