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William Bennett
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 3
Former United States Secretary Of Education
Politician
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Brooklyn
New York
William John Bennett
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President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.
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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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In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.
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Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
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Loving your homeland is just as natural as loving your father or mother - after all, your country nourishes you, protects you, and in many ways makes you who you are. Just as it's a virtue to honor your parents, it's a good and admirable thing to honor the land you call home.
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The President is the symbol of who the people of the United States are. He is the person who stands for us in the eyes of the world and the eyes of our children.
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Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.
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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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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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Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.
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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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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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There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously they must see adults take morality seriously.
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I do not suggest that you should not have an open mind ... but don't keep your mind so open that your brains fall out.
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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 new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.
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Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
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Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional values they embody.
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I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose - you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.
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Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will.
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