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Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
Activism
America
Judicial
Traditional
Traditional Marriage
Threatens
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The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
Birth
Democracy
Eras
Iraq
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Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
Home
Father
Founding
Taught
Fathers
Founding Fathers
Thousands
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English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
Citizens
House
Reading
Requirements
English
Citizen
Official
Speaking
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The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
Religion
First Amendment
Firsts
Protect
Should
Amendment
Attack
Courts
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Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
Economic Freedom
Property Rights
Permitted
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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.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
America
Confusion
Force
Sea
Unifying
Instead
Official
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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.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
Government
Creating
Heritage
Religious
Recognize
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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.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
Christmas
Smile
Holiday
Holiday Season
Seasons
References
Season
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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.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
Religious
Speech
Years
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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.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
China
Competition
Creating
Europe
Income
Income Tax
Japan
Permanent
Tax Cuts
Tax
Cuts
New Jobs
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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.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
War
Religious
Rights
War People Who
Beliefs
Express
Protesting
Provide
Religious Beliefs
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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.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
Home
Children
Educated
Responsibility
Applaud
Assure
Begins
Education Home Children
Recognize
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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.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
Criminal Justice
Fabric
Law
People
Umpires
Society Justice Law
American People
Civil
Criminal
Nose
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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.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
Alternatives
Creating
Destroying
Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Purpose
Research
Sole
Stem
Stem Cell
Stem Cell Research
Support
Cell
Cell Research
Embryonic
Embryonic Stem Cell
Oppose
Potential
Sole Purpose
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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.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
Ability
America
Backgrounds
Common
Common Language
Different
Different Backgrounds
Diversity
Language
People
Principles
Around
Necessary
Reach
Unite
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I think it's awful that the state of Oklahoma a couple of years ago passed this law to give the same tuition to illegals as they do to people who are residents of Oklahoma. I think it's wrong.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
Oklahoma
Residents
Tuition
Years Ago
Couple Of Years Ago
Passed
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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.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
America
Halfway
Hemisphere
Inexpensive
Labor
Mind Your Own Business
Nations
Plenty
Provide
Sending
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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.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
Definitions
Protection
Traditional
Traditional Marriage
Amendment
Fundamental
Solution
Uniform
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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.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
Champion
Fighting
Leave Me Alone
Tyranny
Bush
Emphasized
George
George W
George W. Bush
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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.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
Believe
Together
Tongue
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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.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
Society
American Society
Ballots
Benefits
Cost
Dollars
Immigrants
Integrating
Millions
Multiple
Printing
Years
English
Languages
Gaining
Millions Of Dollars
Speaking
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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.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
Exaggerated
Forty
Human Life
Innocent
Pursue
Sacrifice
Thirty
Life Time Respect
Forty Years
Promises
Treatments
We Cannot
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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.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
Home
Children
Classroom
Mean
Schooled
Traditional
Combine
Frequently
Home Schooling
Interact
More And More
Purposes
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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.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
Kids
Curriculum
Lurking
Parent
Peer Pressure
Pressure
School
Vary
Motives
Peer
Presence
Schools
Wary
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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.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
Behave
Parent
Teachers
Principals
Remind
Send
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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.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
Agreement
Australia
Exaggerated
Important
Nations
Partners
Routine
Small Nations
Fairly
Involves
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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.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
Doe
Melting
Melting Pot
Mock
People
Vote
Writing
American Citizen
Assimilate
Cherished
Citizen
Involve
Require
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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.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
Technology
Children
Math
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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.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
Development
Government Programs
Growth
Math
Permanent
Research
Spurs
Study
Tax
Credits
Programs
Meet
Push
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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.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
America
Backgrounds
Common
Different Backgrounds
Father
Immigrants
Principles
Son
Taught
Bilingual
Spoke
Unite
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