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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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William John Bennett
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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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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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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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It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
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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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Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins Once upon a time...
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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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The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.
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America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
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If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.
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