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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

#america #around #backgrounds #bilingual #come

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#cannot #health #live #man #prayer

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

— Ernest Istook

#economic #economic freedom #founded #freedom #government

This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league. ↗

— Allen Iverson

#before #dream #even #getting #into

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

— Ernest Istook

#attack #courts #first #first amendment #protect

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

#actually #agreement #all nations #although #australia

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

#enjoy #express #iraq #people #property

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

#american citizen #any #assimilate #become #cherished

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

#exaggerated #forty #forty years #human #human life

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

#definitions #different #fundamental #marriage #need