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
september-11 world unthinkable
What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world
ideas waiting helping
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.
long priorities fbi
The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority
effort needs terrorism
We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort
democracy way changed
We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed
atheist people matter
People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.
mother father cooperation
If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
play half court
I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.
powerful race law
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 origin. Such reports of violence and threats are in direct opposition to the very principles and laws of the United States and will not be tolerated.
purpose terrorism members
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.
scary citizens offended
Any citizen who's offended ... can leave the service.
religious war scary
[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 chosen and not commanded.
godly america scary
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 source is godly and eternal.
rights effort scary
[Ashcroft vowed to] spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag.