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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In virtually every case, we make an assessment of how do we protect the people of the United States best, ... It may be there are persons who are both enemy combatants and susceptible to criminal prosecution.
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The integrity of a program that's designed to protect innocent people from suffering at the hands of brutal regimes is a serious matter,
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Human trafficking victims are too often people like Got. Too young, too frightened, and too trapped in their circumstances to speak for themselves, ... This is a 4-year-old child. He's a shy, tender little boy.
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This is reading what people put into the public domain, ... If you hire a billboard, and you write what you're saying on the billboard, I don't think it's an invasion of privacy for the FBI driving by to look at the billboard and read it.
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Schools will be accountable for confirming the status of student visa holders, the INS will be accountable for enforcing violations of that status, and the American people will gain a measure of assurance that students visiting our country are who they purport to be,
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Steroids are bad for sports, bad for players, bad for the young people who hold athletes up as role models.
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America's farmers should not be used as pawns in foreign policy disputes, ... The only people hurt by food embargoes are U.S. farmers and innocent citizens of other countries.
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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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People who interfere with the exercise of constitutionally protected rights should be the focus of attention by prosecutorial authorities,
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From the first days of our administration, honoring the diversity of the American people has been a priority for President Bush and for me,
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Some people fail to understand that security is designed to secure something, and what we are securing are the rights of individuals, ... Larry King Live.
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The magnitude and nature of these attacks -- the coordination, the sophistication of these attacks -- indicate to me that they are not sort of random acts by people who are just angry. These are long, prolonged, planned activities.
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This is not just a call to action. It is a call to the values that make our nation and it's people strong and free, ... Nothing does more to diminish our potential as individuals and a nation than drug abuse.
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The Internet is no longer a safe haven where drug dealers can hide, ... Our campuses, our neighborhoods, our communities are safer places for young women today because cyberspace just got more dangerous for drug traffickers.