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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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By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act.
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Our priorities should be: recognizing the voice of God and responding to the voice of God.
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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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If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
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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'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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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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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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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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There's nothing more rewarding or important than to be involved in God's work of redemption.
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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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The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.
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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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Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.
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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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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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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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There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism
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