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.
Quotes to Explore
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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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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I want to be a major force.
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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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Politics, I now understand, is at its best when it enlightens us via an opponent's insight.
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Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.
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I don't want to interview people for the purpose of developing a world view and pushing that on people.
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I always want to be a person who challenges herself to be a better person and spends her time giving rather than receiving.
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My personal style is kind of tomboy-boho chic! Sort of funky but simple.
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In second grade, I told a bunch of kids there was a homeless person living between the portable classrooms outside our school. It caused panic, and the principal had to announce on the P.A. system that no one was living there. I pretended I didn't know who started the rumor.
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Regulators around the world have achieved an unprecedented level of collaboration since the financial crisis to create global standards for financial institutions. American regulators have largely viewed these international standards as a floor, and imposed higher standards on U.S. institutions.
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I want there to be a real partnership between the Department of Justice in Washington and U.S. attorneys.
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The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
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I'm read in the Caribbean with justice, with fairness. What I expect it to do is to encourage articulacy in the young.
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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.
