Ernest Istook

There are many alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, alternatives with great potential. We need to support these and oppose creating life…

— Ernest Istook

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the…

— Ernest Istook

It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom.…

— Ernest Istook

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

— Ernest Istook

We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can't have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment…

— Ernest Istook

There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations,…

— Ernest Istook

We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There…

— Ernest Istook

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and…

— Ernest Istook

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

— Ernest Istook

I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to…

— Ernest Istook

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

— Ernest Istook

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

— Ernest Istook

Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.

— Ernest Istook

Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to…

— Ernest Istook

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

— Ernest Istook

We are all American. If we believe that we are Americans, if we believe that what binds us together is what we…

— Ernest Istook

I think it's awful that the state of Oklahoma a couple of years ago passed this law to give the same tuition…

— Ernest Istook

The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.

— Ernest Istook

My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what…

— Ernest Istook

America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common…

— Ernest Istook

America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own…

— Ernest Istook

There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of…

— Ernest Istook

Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that…

— Ernest Istook

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.

— Ernest Istook

Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get…

— Ernest Istook