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 have very serious challenges to address, and to leave us with agents who have their hands tied in the field ... is foolhardy.
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It's very important, because in most cases where children are seriously hurt or killed, they are killed during the early hours of the abduction, ... And so we want to have the alert not only be a substantial and broad alert, but it has to happen early and quickly. That's why it's important we have this additional funding and this coordination at the national level.
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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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It's important that we have available the most serious penalties in a setting like this, ... I believe that the ultimate sanction ought to be available here.
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We've got a great opportunity ahead of us ... to institute procedures to lessen the risk of not being able to locate very serious assets.
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Mr. Walker is an adult who made very serious decisions against the United States ... , ... No other individual has a right to impose an attorney on him or to choose an attorney for him.
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We think any time firearms are missing, it's a serious circumstance,
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I am confident ... that very serious effort is being given not only to the tape itself and whether or not it might represent the voice of bin Laden, but also to the content of the tape and what might be signaled in the wording of the tape,
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The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them
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We're going to do what we need to do to protect the American people.
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We have no desire whatsoever to in any way erode or undermine constitutional liberties,
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We are alerting law enforcement and financial institutions and the American people to be vigilant and to be aware of anything that appears suspicious,
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We believe that these could be and likely appear to be sort of martyrdom messages from suicide terrorists, ... Whether or not the attack would be imminent or not is something we can't determine.
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We believe that the first prosecutions should occur in those jurisdictions that provide the best law, the best facts and the best range of available penalties,