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Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their actions and own up to them--who answer for them.
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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New York
William John Bennett
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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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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
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.
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.
William Bennett
In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.
William Bennett
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.
William Bennett
Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.
William Bennett
There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously they must see adults take morality seriously.
William Bennett
Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins Once upon a time...
William Bennett
President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.
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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
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
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
I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.
William Bennett
Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?
William Bennett
A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.
William Bennett
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
William Bennett
What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.
William Bennett
Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.
William Bennett
Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.
William Bennett
