John Ashcroft Serious Quotations

It's important that we have available the most serious penalties in a setting like this, ... I believe that the ultimate sanction ought to be available here.

We think any time firearms are missing, it's a serious circumstance,

I am confident ... that very serious effort is being given not only to the tape itself and whether or not it might represent the voice of bin Laden, but also to the content of the tape and what might be signaled in the wording of the tape,

We've got a great opportunity ahead of us ... to institute procedures to lessen the risk of not being able to locate very serious assets.

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.

The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them

The integrity of a program that's designed to protect innocent people from suffering at the hands of brutal regimes is a serious matter,

We have very serious challenges to address, and to leave us with agents who have their hands tied in the field ... is foolhardy.

Mr. Walker is an adult who made very serious decisions against the United States ... , ... No other individual has a right to impose an attorney on him or to choose an attorney for him.