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Our priorities should be: recognizing the voice of God and responding to the voice of God.

John Ashcroft

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John Ashcroft
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: May 9
Former Governor Of Missouri
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Chicago
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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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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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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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A calculated, malignant, devastating evil has arisen in our world, ... Civilization cannot ignore the wrongs that have been done. America will not tolerate their being repeated. Justice has a new mission, a new calling against an old evil.
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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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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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I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.
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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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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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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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[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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The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'.
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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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This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.
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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 Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.
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There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism
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The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.
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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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