John Ashcroft

“The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention.”

“It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.”

“The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime.”

“Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.”

“The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.”

“If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.”