People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

There's nothing more rewarding or important than to be involved in God's work of redemption.

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.

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world

The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.

Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.

[Ashcroft vowed to] spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag.