William Bennett
William Bennett
William John "Bill" Bennettis an American conservative pundit, politician, and political theorist, who served as Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988 under President Ronald Reagan. He also held the post of Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under George H. W. Bush. In 2000, he co-founded K12, a publicly traded online education company...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 July 1943
CountryUnited States of America
christian religious source
The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.
heart would-be way
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.
taken responsibility people
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.
teaching people doe
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
heart mean honor
"Honor never grows old, and honor rejoices the heart of age. It does so because honor is, finally, about defending those noble and worthy things that deserve defending, even if it comes at a high cost. In our time, that may mean social disapproval, public scorn, hardship, persecution, or as always, even death itself. The question remains: What is worth defending? What is worth dying for? What is worth living for?
healthy done way
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.'
christian religious names
Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?
christian religious new-york
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.
corny easy vicious
If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.
candor reject talk wild
We've got to have candor and talk about these things while we reject wild hypotheses,
front grand jury late president standing tough
What you are going to see (Monday), I take it, is an unrehearsed president, a president without makeup, so to speak, standing in front of the grand jury getting some very tough questions, ... Late Edition.
attitude mental
There are no mental jobs, only mental attitudes.
children presence seriously
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
develop greater necessary original powers trying
Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.