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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I look upon the position of attorney general with an awesome sense of responsibility, ... If I am confirmed, on my shoulders will rest the responsibility of upholding American justice ... protection of the weak, freedom for the restrained, liberty to the oppressed, and security to every citizen.
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I can't say I knew very much about the magazine, ... I've had lots of telephone interviews with magazines... I don't have to agree with their views.
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what I can to accommodate the needs of these families.
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There are only two persons who know where the leak came from, ... It does make these cases difficult, but not impossible.
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No cave is deep enough to escape the patient justice of America,
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We won't tolerate it any more than we will tolerate the financing of groups that on September 11 attacked our homeland.
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We are making the kinds of contacts and developing the information that allow us to describe this as proceeding with reasonable success,
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The defendants effectively rewarded past -- and encouraged future -- suicide bombings,
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A calculated, malignant, devastating evil has arisen in our world.
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It's pretty clear that the networks that conduct these kinds of events are harbored and supported, sustained, protected by a variety of foreign governments, ... And it's time for those governments to understand with crystal clarity that the United States of America will not tolerate that kind of support for networks that would inflict that kind of damage on the American people.
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This morning the United States Supreme Court made our ability to prosecute those who produce and possess child pornography immeasurably more difficult,
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It is time to separate fully our service to legal immigrants who help build America ... from our enforcement against illegal aliens who violate the laws of America.
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for every one of us who were changed forever by this horrible tragedy.
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for anyone who's in a leadership position to stand mute and silent in the face of the kind of conduct that's been described here is to implicitly endorse that conduct.