Quote

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

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
Doe
Work
People
Secretary
Establishment
Works
Teaching
Education
American

More quotes by 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
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
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
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
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.
William Bennett
Image
A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.
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
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
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
Image
President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.
William Bennett
Image
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.
William Bennett
Image
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
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
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
William Bennett
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?
William Bennett
Image
If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.
William Bennett
Image
It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
William Bennett
Image
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.
William Bennett