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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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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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The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.
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All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we're doing something that makes a difference. I believe we're doing that in the Justice Department.
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The new rule says that the FBI has the right to go to public places on the same terms and conditions as other members of the public for counterterrorism purposes.
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Only God, no other kings!
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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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We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort
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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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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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Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.
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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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There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism
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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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The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.
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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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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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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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