John Ashcroft National Quotations

In order to let those people go back to their ordinary course of operations, their other duties, we've asked that we get several hundred National Guard people to help us with inspections at the border,

It is important to note there is no specific threat being communicated to any specific institution, ... We are not changing our assessment of the overall national threat level, and we are not asking banks to close or urging people to stay away from banks.

This is another step in what in effect is part of a national neighborhood watch,

To those who pit Americans against immigrants, citizens against non-citizens, to those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve,

as a delaying tactic to try to shield the details of unofficial acts having nothing to do with national security, but everything to do with Mr. Clinton's personal legal problems.

Anyone who purposefully leaks information that has been classified is ... subordinating national security,

It's very important, because in most cases where children are seriously hurt or killed, they are killed during the early hours of the abduction, ... And so we want to have the alert not only be a substantial and broad alert, but it has to happen early and quickly. That's why it's important we have this additional funding and this coordination at the national level.