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President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.

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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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When we were attacked on Sept. 11, we knew the main reason for the attack was that Islamists hated our way of life, our virtues, our freedoms. What we never imagined was that the free press - an institution at the heart of those virtues and freedoms - would be among the first to surrender.
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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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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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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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America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
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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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We are here to help one another along life's journey.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.
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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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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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Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.
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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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