John Ashcroft Quotes

• 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 doing that in the Justice Department.

  John Ashcroft

• There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.

  John Ashcroft

• 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.

  John Ashcroft

• The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.

  John Ashcroft

• 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.

  John Ashcroft

• 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.

  John Ashcroft

• The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them.

  John Ashcroft

• 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 terms of terrorism is prevention.

  John Ashcroft

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

  John Ashcroft

• Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.

  John Ashcroft

• 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.

  John Ashcroft

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

  John Ashcroft

• Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

  John Ashcroft

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

  John Ashcroft

• It’s a different world.

  John Ashcroft

• It doesn’t help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it’s the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.

  John Ashcroft

• If necessity is the mother of invention, it’s the father of cooperation. And we’re cooperating like never before.

  John Ashcroft

• I don’t play full court anymore. I just play half-court.

  John Ashcroft

• Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven’t. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don’t impose.

  John Ashcroft

• An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

  John Ashcroft

John Ashcroft (26)

Birth:	9th May, 1942
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

About

John David Ashcroft was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an American Republican politician and lawyer. He served as the 79th U.S. Attorney General from 2001–2005. He served as Auditor of Missouri, Attorney General of Missouri, and the 50th Governor of Missouri from 1985-1993. He served as Chair of the National Governors Association from 1991-1992. He also served as a U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1995–2001. He earned a BA degree from Yale University in 1964. He earned a Juris Doctor (JD) degree from the University of Chicago School of Law in 1967. After law school, he briefly taught Business Law and worked as an administrator at Southwest Missouri State University. He later founded The Ashcroft Group, a Washington D.C. lobbying firm. He has written several books include: Law for business, Relationships in the Nhs (with Geoff Meads), On My Honor, and Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice.

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