John Ashcroft Short Quotes

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Why are we talking about this in the White House? History will not judge this kindly.

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The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.

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It is not enough that we have a guilty defendant. We must have an innocent system as well.

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I'm trying to think of all the reasons that are appropriate for me to refuse to answer that question.

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A trustee has a responsibility to guard the assets of others with a higher degree of care than he does his own.

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How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.

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To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.

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The last time I looked at September 11th, an American street was a war zone. There was a street in Virginia that was a war zone.

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I was deeply grieved and suddenly depleted by a draining weariness. This day had been a nightmare, and I had not yet been asleep.

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Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends his son to die for you.

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The transmission of values from one generation to the next is the single most important task of the society....What am I doing to shape the values of the society?

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The goal of terror is not traditional territorial enlargement; rather the war target of the terrorist is the dismemberment of the will of the community it terrorizes.

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It wasn't that people were antagonistic; it was more that they were accustomed to doing their work in a certain way, and change always causes some people to be uncomfortable.

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