John Ashcroft Quotes
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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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Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.
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The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime.
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The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.
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Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends his son to die for you.
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Through it all, I've learned to trust that God does indeed have a plan and purpose for me. Trust doesn't come into play when you can figure everything out; that's mere reason. Trust operates when you can't understand why circumstances or events happen. That's where it takes faith to believe that God knows what is best for our lives.
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There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.
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How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.
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I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.
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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 the public for counter-terrorism purposes.
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(Allegedly) Why are we talking about this in the White House? History will not judge this kindly.
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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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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 understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.
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Do not allow your sorrow or your rage to become hostility toward people on the basis of their ethnicity or their religious views. That is unacceptable; it is out of bounds, and if you break the law, we will prosecute you for it.
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I was deeply grieved and suddenly depleted by a draining weariness. This day had been a nightmare, and I had not yet been asleep.
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Simply put, international terrorism made international cooperation mandatory rather than elective. Collective security has become the only real security against the hydra-headed monster of international terror.
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I'm trying to think of all the reasons that are appropriate for me to refuse to answer that question.
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The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States.
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Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk.
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It wasn't that people were antagonistic; it was more that they were accustomed to doing their work in a certain way, and change always causes some people to be uncomfortable.