Ernest Istook Quotes

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.

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• The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.

  

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• State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.

  

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• Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.

  

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• I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.

  

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• The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

  

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• There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

  

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• On career day as a young journalist, I scraped up my money and went to this big conference for young journalists, and the great feedback I got was that I would not or should not become an anchor because my eyelashes were too long and too distracting.

  

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• The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.

  

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• Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

  

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• A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.'

  

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• I will persist until I succeed. I was not deIivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd.

  

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• From the start, the promise of Jurgen Klinsmann as manager of the U.S. men's national team was revolution: gritty, plodding American soccer would give way to attacking flair; the parade of journeymen would end; an era of skilled stylists would begin.

  

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• While the web is very much the first draft of history, a rough-cut, it still has to be good journalism, well-sourced, reliable. Clearly, the printed form is going to have more effort put into it, going to be more reflective and relevant.

  

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• Music has always been part of my family's life. My brother, sister, and I all have the same ability to pick up an instrument and play.

  

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• Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

  

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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
  • Society
  • Law