John Ashcroft Terrorists Quotations

Today's terrorists enjoy the benefits of our free society even as they commit themselves to our destruction,

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,

Drug traffickers benefit from the paramilitary skills, the access to weapons and links to other clandestine groups that terrorists can provide. Terrorists, for their part, gain a source of revenue and expertise in money laundering from drug traffickers,

After amassing large amounts of plastic explosives, the terrorists assisted by an as yet unidentified member of Lebanese Hezbollah ... converted a tanker truck into a huge bomb,

Our American system of justice will allow Walker the rights and due process that the terrorists he fought side by side with sought, and still seek, to destroy.

Yet, terrorists -- people who were either involved with, associated with, or are seeking to take advantage of the September 11 attacks -- are now poisoning our communities with anthrax.

It's clear to me that terrorists seize opportunities and they'll strike us any time they feel like they have the capacity of striking us,

It may well be that we have opportunists in the United States or terrorists in the United States who are acting in ways that are unrelated.