Ernest Istook Quotes

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

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  Reading, House, Citizens

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• 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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  Children, Home, Responsibility

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• 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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  Christmas, Holiday, Holiday Season

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• La fuerza de Estados Unidos no es nuestra diversidad; nuestra fuerza es nuestra capacidad para unir a personas de distintos orígenes en torno a principios comunes. Para alcanzar ese objetivo es necesario un lenguaje común.

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  América, Gente, Diversidad

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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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  Firsts, First Amendment, Should

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• While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years.

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  Religious, Years, Speech

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• El activismo judicial fuera de control amenaza el matrimonio tradicional en Estados Unidos.

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  America, Activism, Judicial

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• Mi padre era hijo de inmigrantes y creció bilingüe, pero el inglés es lo que mi padre me enseñó y lo que me hablaba. La fuerza de Estados Unidos no es nuestra diversidad, sino nuestra capacidad de unirnos en torno a principios comunes aunque tengamos orígenes diferentes.

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  Father, Son, America

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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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  Escritura, Gente, Doe

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• El pueblo estadounidense no quiere que la gente se burle de la ley. Eso socava el tejido mismo de nuestra sociedad y el sistema de justicia civil y penal.

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  Law, Umpires, People

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• 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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  Religious, Government, Creating

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

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  Father, Home, Taught

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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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  Religious, War, Rights

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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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  Niños, Hogar, Media

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

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  Iraq, Democracy, Eras

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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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  America, Mind Your Own Business, Hemisphere

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• La investigación y el desarrollo necesitan créditos fiscales permanentes para construir la tecnología que estimule nuestro crecimiento. Pero ningún programa gubernamental por sí solo puede conseguir que los alumnos estadounidenses estudien más ciencias y matemáticas. Los padres deben empujar y ayudar a sus hijos a cumplir este objetivo.

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  Children, Math, Technology

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• 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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  Agreement, Australia, Important

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• It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.

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  Fighting, Champion, Leave Me Alone

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• Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

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  Sea, America, Confusion

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• 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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  Escuela, Niños, Padres

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• 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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  Years, Dollars, Cost

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• We are all American. If we believe that we are Americans, if we believe that what binds us together is what we have in common, then it must include the common language, and that common tongue is English.

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  Believe, Together, Tongue

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