John Ashcroft Quotes About Crime

Quotes about: Crime

• The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.

  John Ashcroft

  Fighting, Rights, Citizens

• 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?

  John Ashcroft

  Real, Communication, Home

• It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.

  John Ashcroft

  Ideas, Waiting, Helping

• People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

  John Ashcroft

  Atheist, People, Atheism

• The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.

  John Ashcroft

  Safety, Crime, Terror

  "President Bush Nominates Alberto Gonzalez as Attorney General". Resignation letter to the president, www.pbs.org. November 10, 2004.

• 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

  John Ashcroft

  Suicide, Punishment, Way

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