John Ashcroft
John Ashcroft
John David Ashcroftis an American attorney and politician who served as the 79th U.S. Attorney General, in the George W. Bush Administration. He later founded The Ashcroft Group, a Washington D.C. lobbying firm...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth9 May 1942
CountryUnited States of America
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We need to find ways to share as much information with individuals as is possible to make every American, whether they are in an industry or business or in law enforcement or in their families, capable of enhancing their security by being aware and alert,
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Thousands of persons, primarily women and children, are trafficked into the United States each year,
priorities prevention terrorism
There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism
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To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.
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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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We must embrace the power of faith, but we must never confuse politics and piety. For me, may I say that it is against my religion to impose my religion.
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The charges of the hysterics are revealed for what they are: castles in the air built on misrepresentation, supported by unfounded fear, held aloft by hysteria.
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Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate
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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.
scary citizens offended
Any citizen who's offended ... can leave the service.
democracy way changed
We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed
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What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world
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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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We believe that the evidence that is available through his statements, which is the basis of the charges, provides charging for those crimes which are not death-eligible,