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
government scary tradition
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.
america culture prevention
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.
responsibility doe care
A trustee has a responsibility to guard the assets of others with a higher degree of care than he does his own.
religious views ethnicity
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.
jesus kings character
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.
quitting embarrassing knocked-down
To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.
wall law community
By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act.
son christianity dies
Christianity is a faith in which God sent his Son to die for you.
risk september-11 world
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
scary may embrace
We must embrace the power of faith, but we must never confuse politics and piety. For me, may I say that it is against my religion to impose my religion.
world capacity remains
Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.
business mistake boss
The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'.
father gun rights
Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.
america giving people
To those who scare peace loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends.