#ra

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

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

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#believing #both #both sides #extremists #friendly

I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#deal #fairly #feel #great #great deal

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#decided #democracy #fixing #i #japan

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#embrace #tempest #tossed

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#freedom #fuzzy #human #human rights #liberty

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#along #creative #creative work #creativity #future