Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual righ…

- John Ashcroft

By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually i…

- John Ashcroft

I feel the best way to ensure Americans' freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible. Only through wiretaps, illegal searc…

- John Ashcroft

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 uni…

- John Ashcroft

Christianity is a faith in which God sent his Son to die for you.

- John Ashcroft

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

- John Ashcroft

Doing what is right in the face of adversity is not always easy or popular. Critics may assail you, but the critics don't always realize what they do…

- John Ashcroft

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

- John Ashcroft

Do not allow your sorrow or your rage to become hostility toward people on the basis of their ethnicity or their religious views. That is unacceptabl…

- John Ashcroft