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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

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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

#american people #civil #criminal #criminal justice #fabric

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation. ↗

— Joichi Ito

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It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. ↗

— Molly Ivins

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The fabric of existence weaves itself whole. ↗

— Charles Ives

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