John Ashcroft Protected Quotations

America is committed to seeing civil liberties protected as a shield for freedom-loving people, not as a sword for freedom-loathing people.

People who interfere with the exercise of constitutionally protected rights should be the focus of attention by prosecutorial authorities,

It's pretty clear that the networks that conduct these kinds of events are harbored and supported, sustained, protected by a variety of foreign governments, ... And it's time for those governments to understand with crystal clarity that the United States of America will not tolerate that kind of support for networks that would inflict that kind of damage on the American people.