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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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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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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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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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Only God, no other kings!
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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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Our priorities should be: recognizing the voice of God and responding to the voice of God.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed
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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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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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We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort
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