Ernest Istook Quotes

• Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

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  Tags in American, Religious, Heritage

• Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they – not someone else – must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.

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  Topics in Education

  Tags in Responsibility

• 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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  Topics in Country

  Tags in Competition

• 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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  Tags in Traditional, Marriage

• 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

• 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

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

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  Tags in Students

• 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

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important, Nations, Trade, Partners

• 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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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Purpose

• 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

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Parents, Pressure

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Courts

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

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  Topics in Democracy, Positive

  Tags in Iraq

• 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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  Topics in Justice, Society

  Tags in American

• 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

• 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

• Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

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  Topics in America

  Tags in Marriage

• Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Economic, Freedom, Government

• My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America’s strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.

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  Topics in Father

  Tags in Taught, English

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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