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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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John Ashcroft
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: May 9
Former Governor Of Missouri
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Any citizen who's offended ... can leave the service.
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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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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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The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.
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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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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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Our priorities should be: recognizing the voice of God and responding to the voice of God.
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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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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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The goal of terror is not traditional territorial enlargement rather the war target of the terrorist is the dismemberment of the will of the community it terrorizes.
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