319 Quotes by John Ashcroft

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

I'm delighted to have the opportunity to get better acquainted with a variety of challenges faced by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, ... I look forward to working hard personally so that these challenges will be better met and America can better respond to its responsibilities as it relates to citizens of this country.

I intend to meet with these families shortly and confer with them before announcing a final decision ... on the way in which this matter will be conducted, ... But it is with a view toward meeting the needs of these families and being sensitive to their concerns that we will make this decision.

We won't tolerate it any more than we will tolerate the financing of groups that on September 11 attacked our homeland.

Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk

I know the difference between enacting and enforcing the law, ... It means advancing the nation's interest, not advocating my personal interest.

We are making the kinds of contacts and developing the information that allow us to describe this as proceeding with reasonable success,

Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate

I'm very pleased that today our judicial system exercised it responsibility in a way that reinforces justice, ... an additional month of uncertainty.