John Ashcroft Quotes on Crime (10 Quotes)

perhaps the largest group of crime victims in our history.

Operation Web Snare is the largest and most successful collaborative law-enforcement operation ever conducted to prosecute online fraud, stop identity theft, and prevent other computer-related crimes,

The Department of Justice will pursue allegations of corporate fraud regardless of the size or the prominence of the company under scrutiny. So whether you are an executive of a Fortune 100 firm or an Internet startup company, if you victimize investors and employees, you will face investigation, prosecution and prison for your crimes.

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.

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

We believe that this is a very important step forward in the reduction of crime. When you get a 15 percent reduction, that's one out of every seven crimes that would have happened last year doesn't happen this year and that in our mind is a very favorable sign,

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.

Although the criminals who committed the thefts may have transported the objects beyond Iraq's borders, they should know that they have not escaped the reach of justice,

Among these reasons was the impact of the crime on thousands of victims, ... We are committed not only to carrying out justice in this case but also to ensure that the rights of the victims are protected.

a significant victory over the culture of crime, of corruption and death that is fueled by illicit drugs.