John Ashcroft
John Ashcroft
John David Ashcroftis an American attorney and politician who served as the 79th U.S. Attorney General, in the George W. Bush Administration. He later founded The Ashcroft Group, a Washington D.C. lobbying firm...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth9 May 1942
CountryUnited States of America
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We're in the business of securing freedom, not sacrificing freedom,
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Steroids are bad for sports, bad for players, bad for the young people who hold athletes up as role models.
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My sincerest thanks go out to all of the interviewees who cooperated voluntarily in this process. These individuals made a choice to be responsible for helping save lives instead of remaining silent against evil,
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My opposition to the aborting of unborn children has been a deeply held position of mine, ... Reasonable people do differ on these things.
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I think our foreign policy tiger has too few teeth, ... We've been able to raise some issues, but we haven't been able to get any results.
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But, ... I know the difference between enactment and enforcement.
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At this time, most intelligence focuses on possible attacks on U.S. interests overseas,
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The Internet is no longer a safe haven where drug dealers can hide, ... Our campuses, our neighborhoods, our communities are safer places for young women today because cyberspace just got more dangerous for drug traffickers.
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The integrity of a program that's designed to protect innocent people from suffering at the hands of brutal regimes is a serious matter,
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The INS must become a stronger deterrent to our enemies and a better servant to our friends,
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I regret to inform you that we are today sending our troops into the modern field of battle with antique weapons. It is not a prescription for victory,
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illegal steroid use calls into question not only the integrity of the athletes who use them but also the integrity of the sports that those athletes play.
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In virtually every case, we make an assessment of how do we protect the people of the United States best, ... It may be there are persons who are both enemy combatants and susceptible to criminal prosecution.
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I'm very pleased that today our judicial system exercised it responsibility in a way that reinforces justice, ... an additional month of uncertainty.