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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

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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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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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The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.
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A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.
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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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In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.
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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.
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America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
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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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All real education is the architecture of the soul.
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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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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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The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.
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Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
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