Quote

Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins Once upon a time...

William Bennett

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Bennett
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 3
Former United States Secretary Of Education
Politician
Radio Personality
Brooklyn
New York
William John Bennett
Upon
Else
Improved
Stories
Recent
Nothing
Insult
Years
Anywhere
Good
Begins
Time
Television
Story

More quotes by William Bennett

Image
We are here to help one another along life's journey.
William Bennett
Image
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.
William Bennett
Image
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
William Bennett
Image
True courage is mixed with circumspection, the kind of healthy skepticism that asks, 'Is this the best way to do this?' True cowardice is marked by chronic skepticism, which always says, 'It can't be done.'
William Bennett
Image
Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.
William Bennett
Image
President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.
William Bennett
Image
I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.
William Bennett
Image
What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.
William Bennett
Image
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.
William Bennett
Image
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
Image
In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.
William Bennett
Image
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
William Bennett
Image
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
William Bennett
Image
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.
William Bennett
Image
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.
William Bennett
Image
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.
William Bennett
Image
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.
William Bennett
Image
Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.
William Bennett
Image
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.
William Bennett
Image
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
William Bennett