Ernest Istook Quotes

• We’ve outpaced Japan and Europe in creating new jobs, but there’s major competition from India and China. It’s not enough to make income tax cuts permanent.

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• English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

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  Tags in English, Language

• America’s strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.

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• Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes – and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom.

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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Home, Purposes

• The motives of these parents vary, many parents don’t like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.

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• America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it’s better for us when they’re in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world.

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• The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

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• There are many alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, alternatives with great potential. We need to support these and oppose creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it.

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• Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq.

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  Tags in Religious, Public, Property

• Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.

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  Topics in Society

  Tags in American

• I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to make sure they learn and behave. Teachers and principals may help, but parents are the ones who must accept responsibility.

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  Tags in Parent, Teachers, Responsibility

• The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

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  Tags in American

• There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.

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  Tags in Holiday, Season

• Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America’s students to study more science and math; parents must push and help their children to meet this goal.

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  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Research, Development

• The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.

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  Tags in Iraq

• There’s a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it’s actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they’re still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations.

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• Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.

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• To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.

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  Tags in American, English

• We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Human

• We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can’t have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem.

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Ernest Istook (28)

Birth:	11th February, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

About

Ernest James Istook Jr. was born in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. He is an American politician and lawyer. He is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 5th congressional district. Currently, he is a Distinguished Fellow at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., and also a talk radio host. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Baylor University in Waco, Texas in 1971. He received a law degree from Oklahoma City University School of Law in 1976. After graduation, he established his own law firm, and practiced law for 15 years.

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