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William Bennett
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 3
Former United States Secretary Of Education
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Radio Personality
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New York
William John Bennett
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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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America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
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President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.
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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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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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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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Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
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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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In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.
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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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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.'
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All real education is the architecture of the soul.
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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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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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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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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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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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A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.
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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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