A calculated, malignant, devastating evil has arisen in our world, ... Civilization cannot ignore the wrongs that have been done. America will not tolerate their being repeated. Justice has a new mission, a new calling against an old evil. John Ashcroft More Quotes by John Ashcroft More Quotes From John Ashcroft Sometimes the act of walking in the face of the elements helps us come to grips with reality. Or it simply exhausts us to the point of seeing the futility of resisting reality and the futility of denial. John Ashcroft elements faces reality I decided this early on at Justice: if the traditional way was the most effective way of doing something, then we'd maintain it. But if it was not functioning at optimum levels, we would be doing the country a disservice by continuing to do things "like we've always done them." John Ashcroft would-be justice country The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them John Ashcroft serious challenges children 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 punishment suicide way Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate. John Ashcroft ownership regulation weapons It's a different world. John Ashcroft different-world different world The path we have chosen is constitutional. John Ashcroft constitutional chosen path
