Ernest Istook Quotes
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Marriage happens; it can't be planned. When it has to happen, it will happen. Normally, what we always believe is that however prepared you are, if it's not meant to happen, it won't. And however much we have not planned, it will still happen if it's destined.
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'The Crumbling of America' should be required viewing for local and national government, not to mention the local and national media who should be keeping their feet to the fire on guarding against disaster.
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We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.
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My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.
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It is, I think, the very chaos of America that allowed me to prosper.
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If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it.
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Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.
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Even after marriage, our home is important for us.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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If there is a horrific attack on this country like 9/11, the American people will demand we go to war and settle accounts with those who did it. But America's appetite for intervention, for nation building, for democracy crusades, is fully sated.
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Tupac has always been somebody who represented a higher consciousness of what it means on both sides of the coin to be black in America. He and Prince were leaders who moved to the beat of their own drum, and I can only hope to follow in their footsteps.
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As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.
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Trying to defeat an ideology by killing individuals is like trying to save a marriage with a blowjob. It might buy you some time, but in the end it'll just suck. 3.
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Marriage is rarely bliss But, surely it would be worse As particles to pelt At thousands of miles per sec About a universe In which a lover's kiss Would either not be felt Or break the loved one's neck.
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The man of Hope, Barack Obama. America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship.
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I think that Matt Murdock, the way he kind of holds himself, he's quite sensible at times, and he's quite serious. I think he would admire Captain America - not that he wouldn't admire Iron Man, but I think he probably be a little put off by his grandiosity.
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The faltering of our suburban living arrangement is probably certain. The response of suburbanites is not. Will they elect maniacs who promise to make America just like it was in 1997? Will there be a desperate attempt to sustain the unsustainable by authoritarian measures? Will the institutions of order and justice fail in the process?
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For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy.
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The goal is to not be patted on the back for hiring a woman, because it shouldn't be an exceptional thing. It should just be commonplace that women should have equal opportunities as men.
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'Benedict' means 'blessed.' My parents liked the sound of the name and felt slightly blessed because they'd been trying for a child for a very long time.
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Michael Jordan brings millions of dollars when he shows up in an arena. Since money is how we judge people, he's very valuable.
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Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.
