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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 objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.
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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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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 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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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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This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.
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The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.
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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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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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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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I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.
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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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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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We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed
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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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[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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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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We have to think outside the box, inside the Constitution, find ways to do things that will elevate our security, reduce the risk of the incidence of terrorist attack
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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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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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