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William Bennett
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 3
Former United States Secretary Of Education
Politician
Radio Personality
Brooklyn
New York
William John Bennett
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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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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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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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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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Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.
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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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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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In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
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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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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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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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President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.
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