Quote

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

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
United
President
States
Persons
Symbol
Person
Symbols
Children
Stands
World
Eyes
People
Eye

More quotes by 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
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
William Bennett
Image
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
Image
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
William Bennett
Image
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
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
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
Image
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
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
Image
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.
William Bennett
Image
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
Image
The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.
William Bennett
Image
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.'
William Bennett
Image
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
William Bennett
Image
Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.
William Bennett
Image
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.
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
In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.
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