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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.
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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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.
William Bennett
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.
William Bennett
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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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
William Bennett
The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.
William Bennett
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
Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.
William Bennett
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.
William Bennett
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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The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
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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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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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There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
William Bennett
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.
William Bennett
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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President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.
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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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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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We are here to help one another along life's journey.
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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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