John Ashcroft Quotes

Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.

We must work to stop gun violence. I’ve consoled far too many parents whose children were taken too soon. We need to come together across party, racial, and religious lines. It’s time to take responsibility for making sure our babies grow up.

Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!

We cannot continue to trade our children’s lives against the gun industry’s profits…. It is time to stop killing our children.

All children should have a chance to speak up for what matters to them, like school violence, and they should be encouraged to take action to end violence against children.

Watch our children while they kill each other with guns they bought at Wal-Mart.

The NRA hates freedom. They don't want you to have the freedom to send your children to school & expect them to come home alive.

We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.

I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles.

We can either allow our youth to shoot baskets or watch them shoot people.

No civilized society ought to fear for the safety of its children.

Peace is not just a matter of the absence of violence. It is also necessarily about removing the potential for violence – namely the uncontrolled possession of weapons. It would be naive to believe that anybody can be at ease when it is known that a potential opponent is stockpiling arms, even if the latter swears on whatever he or she believes, that the weapons will not be used. Weapons are meant to be used and pretexts will eventually be found for their use at some point or the other.

Whose child has to die next?

Many of you may have seen reports from England, which indicate that juvenile crime has increased 50 percent on account of the unusual home conditions created by the war. This will happen here, unless we start at once to meet the situation…The attention of the nation should be focused on these problems, for we cannot neglect the welfare of our children in a time of war and expect to have a future worth fighting for.

Evil walks among us, and God help us if we don't harden our schools and protect our kids.

You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it.

We've got to look to our educational programs and focus on doing what we can to stem violence in the schools.

When I think about our babies today and them not being safe in school, I think that should be the next civil rights movement, you know, is to ban the assault weapons so that our babies can be safe.

As the father of six children, I want to know that when my wife or I drop our kids off at school they will be safe from predators, crime and violence.

What I'm interested in is the protection of children from violence, and they are exposed to violence every single day in the form of, as it's called, the news. Then you wonder why the children are running around, doing the things in the streets, doing the things that they've seen the adults doing in the so-called news.

America may be the only society on earth to have experienced what has been called an 'epidemic of children killing children,' which is ravaging some of its communities today.

Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign.

Yet, instead of loving our children more, we install metal detectors in our schools.

The world would be a much nicer place if people only used guns on themselves.

This kind of horror has become all too familiar to us. As parents, Cindy and I offer our prayers to the memory of the slain children and ask that God ease the pain of Littleton's suffering families, ... The students of Columbine High School and children everywhere have a basic right to learn in an environment free of fear and violence. We must redouble our efforts to see that this is a reality.