American - Public | May 9, 1942 -
The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'.
John Ashcroft
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There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.
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Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.
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I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.
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If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
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It's a different world.
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Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.
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