Ernest Istook Quotes

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

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• I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Day
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• There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Good
  • English
  • Boy

• When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.

  

  Adam Clymer
  • Book
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• I know every line to 'The Little Rascals.'

  

  Banks
  • Know
  • Line
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• If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.

  

  Albert Einstein
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  • Torn
  • Hiroshima

• For by doing these things the gates of hell shall not prevail against you; yea, and the Lord God will disperse the powers of darkness from before you, and cause the heavens to shake for your good, and his name's glory.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Good
  • God
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• During the campaign [Donald Trump] talked about reaching out to African- American voters in particular. He talked about inner cities in a way that did offend some people. Lot of Democrats. Some African- Americans of saying what have you got to lose.

  

  Anderson Cooper
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  • American
  • Trump

• It's surprising that the world is understandable to the extent that it is.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • World
  • Surprising
  • Extent

• Even the poor should give something to charity.

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • Charity

• I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it.

  

  F. Paul Wilson
  • Music

• The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.

  

  Socrates
  • Life
  • Real
  • Death

• Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • God
  • History
  • Declaration of Independence

• That man made me miss my destiny.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Man
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  • Miss

• I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Power
  • Ideas
  • Vested interests

• The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Principle
  • Grave
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• He definitely does what a partner is supposed to do, that is, evolve you.

  

  Erykah Badu
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  • Doe
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• The 2001 tour to Australia would have been a great highlight in my career if the Lions had won the series. That might sound strange because it was a great tour in many ways, but, for me, the more time goes by, the less of a career highlight it becomes, and just more of a frustration.

  

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  • Career
  • Australia
  • Series

• Our bridge to the future must include bridges to other nations, because we remain the world's indispensable nation to advance prosperity, peace and freedom and to keep our own children safe from the dangers of terror and weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Future
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• Now that economic realism has finally arrived in India, the future lies in becoming a strong economic power. Dominance in the world will come only from how well a nation can cope with economic realism and towards that India must work, must find its own place under the sun.

  

  Mukesh Ambani
  • Economic
  • Nations
  • Realism

• 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
  • Nations
  • Australia
  • Partners