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America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.

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William Bennett
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 3
Former United States Secretary Of Education
Politician
Radio Personality
Brooklyn
New York
William John Bennett
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What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.
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I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.
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In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.
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It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
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A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as Christians or Jews, while only 7.5 percent claim no religion.
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It is ironic that anyone who appeals to religious values today runs the risk of being called 'divisive' or attacked as an enemy of pluralism.
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When you have an individual that is committed to killing someone else, you can`t expect a restraining order or the police to provide 24-hour protection.
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If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.
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If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.
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When we were attacked on Sept. 11, we knew the main reason for the attack was that Islamists hated our way of life, our virtues, our freedoms. What we never imagined was that the free press - an institution at the heart of those virtues and freedoms - would be among the first to surrender.
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I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are so cynical, so distressed, so angry, so ticked of about so many things.
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The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.
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All real education is the architecture of the soul.
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Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools
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The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
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We are here to help one another along life's journey.
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The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result in the complete exclusion of religious beliefs from our public classrooms.
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Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?
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America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it forces us to confront matters many would prefer to ignore.
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Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
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