Ernest Istook Quotes
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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Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.
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I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
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All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
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If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
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If the government would like to hire my services to maximize value for their stake, they should approach me. No problem.
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Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.
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The organization of the government itself is something which we ought to examine in a more self-conscious way - the Federal Reserve and the Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The mission that each of them has is mainly economic but should be informed by good organizational practices.
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European values, civil rights, freedom of speech, freedom of informatio,n and freedom of assembly are being violated by Spain's central government.
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There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.
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There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams - this is what makes our country so special.
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I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.
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I hope I never get so old I get religious.
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The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
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Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.
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Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.
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It would be a matter of concern for government if intrusive data capture has been deployed against Indian citizens or government infrastructure.
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If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.
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If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.
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Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.
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There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.
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I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.
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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.
