Best 65 quotes of John Ashcroft on MyQuotes

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

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

This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.

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

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.

Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.

We are a nation called to defend freedom - a tradition that is not a grant of any government or document, but is an endowment from God.

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

We must embrace the power of faith, but we must never confuse politics and piety. For me, may I say that it is against my religion to impose my religion.

We must not descend to the level of those who perpetrated Tuesday's violence by targeting individuals based on their race, their religion, or their national origin. Such reports of violence and threats are in direct opposition to the very principles and laws of the United States and will not be tolerated.

We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort

We're going to protect and honor the Constitution, and I don't have the authority to set it aside.... If I had the authority to set it aside, this would be a dangerous government, and I wouldn't respect it.

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed

What did John Ashcroft say about moderates, he said, quote, there are two things you find in the middle of the road, a moderate and a dead skunk and I don't want to be either.

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