America is committed to seeing civil liberties protected as a shield for freedom-loving people, not as a sword for freedom-loathing people.
– John Ashcroft
Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.
– John Ashcroft
We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.
– John Ashcroft
The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States.