Famous quotes by Public Servants

"Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated, and they understand that they've been liberated"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

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

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

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

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

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

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"The Archivist of the United States essentially works for the American people across partisan lines and not, regardless of which Administration nominates the person, for a particular President or political party"

Allen Weinstein, Public Servant

"Research promoted by NARA within a major coalition of Federal and private sector research partners has at last demonstrated that an Electronic Records Archives can be built"

Allen Weinstein, Public Servant

"For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental records in the evolving historic saga of the American people"

Allen Weinstein, Public Servant

"The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the Constitution"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

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

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"It's a different world"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"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, Public Servant

"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, Public Servant

"There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"The path we have chosen is constitutional"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

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

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

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

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

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

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk, and the world in our continent was another world of risk"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"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, Public Servant

"We've got a major problem in our culture, as it relates to the Internet and pornography and child pornography"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"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"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

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

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

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

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

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