"Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion."
-Ernest Istook
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"There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.“
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"The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion."
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"Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom."
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"We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time."
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"Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math parents must push and help their children to meet this goal."
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"My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds."
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