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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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John David Ashcroft
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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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The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.
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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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If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
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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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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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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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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 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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Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.
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There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism
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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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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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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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Our priorities should be: recognizing the voice of God and responding to the voice of God.
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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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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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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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