319 Quotes by John Ashcroft

It is essential that I have the authority to quickly discipline or terminate individuals for acts of negligence, mismanagement or disregard for Department of Justice policies,

Doing what is right in the face of adversity is not always easy or popular. Critics may assail you, but the critics don’t always realize what they don’t know or don’t understand, because they don’t have access to all the information.

If necessity is the mother of invention, it’s the father of cooperation. And we’re cooperating like never before.

There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.

To those who scare peace loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America’s enemies and pause to America’s friends.

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

The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say ‘well done’.

There’s nothing more rewarding or important than to be involved in God’s work of redemption.

The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them.