John Ashcroft Quotes

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• The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'.
• An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.
• 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 in…
• Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have…
• To those who scare peace loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics aid terrorists for they erode our national…
• 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…
• 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 national…
• 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…
• I feel the best way to ensure Americans' freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible. Only through wiretaps, illegal searches…
• Any citizen who's offended ... can leave the service.
• For the first time in a long time, our leaders in Washington understand what Americans of all religious backgrounds have long held to be true:…
• We are a nation called to defend freedom - a tradition that is not a grant of any government or document, but is an endowment…
• [The war on terrorism isn't a religious war, but] a defense of our right to make moral choices, to seek fellowship with God that is…
• 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…
• 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…
• [Ashcroft vowed to] spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag.
• 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…
• Christianity is a faith in which God sent his Son to die for you.
• The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.
• All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we're doing something that makes a difference. I believe we're…

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