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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I think Congress will give him a courteous response. I think we are interested in the future. It would be a tragedy if we were displaced from doing our duty because the president is embroiled in this kind of circumstance,
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It is important to note there is no specific threat being communicated to any specific institution, ... We are not changing our assessment of the overall national threat level, and we are not asking banks to close or urging people to stay away from banks.
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Every organization has problems, the way you define the quality of an organization is by how they respond to problems,
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I think it would be far too early to indicate that this is some sort of major breakthrough in the case, ... But we are going to pursue every lead and we will prosecute every infraction.
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Our expert team of agents and analysts from the FBI will continue to share information and expertise with their British colleagues.
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So, rather than security being something that challenges rights and that diminishes rights, security makes those rights safe and strong.
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A failure by the administration to use U.S. law now to secure American rights would be an outrage,
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This intelligence-gathering initiative only serves to underscore the obvious: September 11 changed us and changed the way we do our jobs,
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Operation Web Snare is the largest and most successful collaborative law-enforcement operation ever conducted to prosecute online fraud, stop identity theft, and prevent other computer-related crimes,
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An individual with that kind of situation is an individual who might know a lot about what could happen, might know the names of individuals, information being so key to intelligence and prevention,
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protect the integrity of the system of justice.
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a wake-up call for every airport in America.
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As an American who cares about our culture, I want to restrict a mass murderer's access to the public podium, ... I do not want anyone to be able to purchase access to the podium of America with the blood of 168 innocent victims.
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A vigorously competitive airline industry is vital to our economy and effective antitrust enforcement is important to preserving the benefits of competition in a deregulated airline industry, ... If this acquisition were allowed to proceed, millions of consumers ? business, government and families ? would have little choice but to pay higher fares and accept lower quality air service.