Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs. — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Our priorities should be: recognizing the voice of God and responding to the voice of God. — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists. — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I decided this early on at Justice: if the traditional way was the most effective way of doing something, then we'd maintain it. But… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
We must not descend to the level of those who perpetrated Tuesday's violence by targeting individuals based on their race, their religion, or their… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
We've got a major problem in our culture, as it relates to the Internet and pornography and child pornography. — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I feel the best way to ensure Americans' freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible. Only through wiretaps, illegal… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Frankly, the president, during the first opportunity I had to be in a Cabinet meeting, before we started the meeting, he said, Folks, before… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world. — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
What did John Ashcroft say about moderates, he said, quote, there are two things you find in the middle of the road, a moderate… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
We must embrace the power of faith, but we must never confuse politics and piety. For me, may I say that it is against… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
