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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.

William Bennett

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William Bennett
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 3
Former United States Secretary Of Education
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From Samuel Adams to Patrick Henry to Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Hamilton, all the Founders intended religion to provide a moral anchor for our liberty in democracy.
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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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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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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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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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President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.
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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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The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
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The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.
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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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I have no doubt that the real irritation of those on the religious right is not that their particular creed is not embraced by the schools, but that often their creed is the only one singled out for contempt.
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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 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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Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.
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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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