Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion. – Ernest Istook
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. – Ernest Istook
Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they – not someone else – must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated. – Ernest Istook
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. Americas strength is not our diversity it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds. – Ernest Istook
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. – G.B. Shaw, Getting Married, 1908