John Ashcroft

Public Servant

1942-05-09

Quotes by John Ashcroft

• An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

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• The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime.

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• We have to think outside the box, inside the Constitution, find ways to do things that will elevate our security, reduce the risk of the incidence of terrorist attack.

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• What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world.

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