319 Quotes by John Ashcroft

There is a concern that the Internet could be used to commit crimes and that advanced encryption could disguise such activity. However, we do not provide the government with phone jacks outside our homes for unlimited wiretaps. Why, then, should we grant government the Orwellian capability to listen at will and in real time to our communications across the Web?

I don't have any personal ax to grind here.

President-elect Bush, you have my word that I will administer the Department of Justice with integrity, I will advise your administration with integrity, and I will enforce the law with integrity, ... embraces the job without any reservation.

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?

I don't know whether anyone turned us down. But it's very clearly the overwhelming majority of individuals interviewed were very helpful to us.

The charges of the hysterics are revealed for what they are: castles in the air built on misrepresentation, supported by unfounded fear, held aloft by hysteria.

perhaps the largest group of crime victims in our history.

I am especially concerned that these criminal aliens may re-enter and prey upon immigrant communities within the United States,

Schools will be accountable for confirming the status of student visa holders, the INS will be accountable for enforcing violations of that status, and the American people will gain a measure of assurance that students visiting our country are who they purport to be,