John Ashcroft

An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#agent #bombs #fbi #how #instruct

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

— John Ashcroft

#commit #crimes #matter #ministers #people

Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#been #fbi #free #haven #impose

All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we're doing something that makes a difference. I believe we're doing that in the Justice Department. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#department #difference #doing #feel #i

I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#court #full #i #just #play

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

— John Ashcroft

#cooperating #cooperation #father #invention #like

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

#crime #especially #extinguish #happens #help

It's a different world. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#different world #world

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#capacity #change #changing #conditions #great

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

— John Ashcroft

#done #make #mistake #say #well