Endowment Quote by John Ashcroft

“We are a nation called to defend freedom - a tradition that is not a grant of any government or document, but is an endowment from God.”

John Ashcroft

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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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The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority

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Our priorities should be: recognizing the voice of God and responding to the voice of God.

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People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

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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…

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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…

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We've got a major problem in our culture, as it relates to the Internet and pornography and child pornography.

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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…

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Any citizen who's offended ... can leave the service.

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I feel the best way to ensure Americans' freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible. Only through wiretaps, illegal…

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Frankly, the president, during the first opportunity I had to be in a Cabinet meeting, before we started the meeting, he said, Folks, before…

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Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

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