Top 62 William Bennett Quotes
#1. In 1989 the former drug czar and TV talk-show fool, William Bennett, suggested de jure as well as de facto abolition of habeas corpus in "drug" cases as well as (I am not inventing this) public beheadings of drug dealers.
Gore Vidal
#2. William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.
Kinky Friedman
#3. 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.
William Bennett
#4. Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
William Bennett
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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.
William Bennett
#10. In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.
William Bennett
#11. I am fascinated by this partnership between Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett. It's magic and I love it.
William J. Clinton
#13. Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?
William Bennett
#14. And I'm supposed to believe that Reagan was a great leader? This is who he chose as the Secretary of Education ...
William Bennett
#16. 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
#17. What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.
William Bennett
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
William Bennett
#21. A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.
William Bennett
#22. If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.
William Bennett
#23. Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order,
William J. Bennett
#24. And line of cases. Justice Byron R. "Whizzer" White, a JFK appointee, dissented, calling Doe an act of "raw judicial power," as it took these decisions from the states and enshrined their determination in the Supreme Court's reasoning.
William J. Bennett
#25. 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
#26. American soldiers were dying in frigid Korea. One of our greatest generals told us that the president and his team were not trying to win. And some strident voices were saying that that was because they didn't want to win,
William J. Bennett
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. These souls were eternally disconnected, forever separated with a force that would not allow any interchange. They were like another race with no societal tie to each other, bound on their own miserable, independent journeys, alike only in the obvious countenance of pain.
R. William Bennett
#30. 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
#31. If we do nothing but to remove a rock upon which someone might have tripped, though they may never know we did it, is this not our cause, our reason for life?
R. William Bennett
#32. It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
William Bennett
#33. Hue does not refer to how light, dark, or intense, but only what kind of color: what hue. It takes all three aspects to make a color, therefore 'red' is not a color, but only one aspect, the hue, of some partially defined color.
William Tapley Bennett Jr.
#34. Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
William J. Bennett
#35. This country is a lot better at teaching self-esteem than it is at teaching math.
William Bennett
#36. President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.
William Bennett
#37. Remorse is a heavy burden, but in its weight, it has great power to awaken men's souls.
R. William Bennett
#38. Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time ... "
William Bennett
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Good nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all virtues: it is nine times out of ten mere indolence of disposition. William Hazlitt, 'On the Knowledge of Character' (1822)
Alan Bennett
#42. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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.
William Bennett
#46. Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be.
William Bennett
#47. The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
William Bennett
#48. Mao would hardly be deterred by the universal condemnation of the civilized world. He saw Stalin as his model. In the agrarian reforms, Stalin had killed seven million; Mao himself killed an estimated forty million Chinese in his reforms.49
William J. Bennett
#49. 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
#50. The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.
William Bennett
#51. 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
#52. Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.
William Bennett
#53. 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
#55. Full color experience is peculiarly satisfying even though it is exhausting and leaves you feeling two-thirds color blind when you're not making the effort.
William Tapley Bennett Jr.
#56. When you want full color perception, you must give up preferring some colors and hating others, for you can only hate one aspect of a color, not a whole color, it seems, hate being blind, like 'love.
William Tapley Bennett Jr.
#57. 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
#58. The essence of education is, in the words of William James, to teach a person what deserves to be valued, to impart ideals as well as knowledge, to cultivate in students the ability to distinguish the true and good from their counterfeits and the wisdom to prefer the former to the latter.
William J. Bennett
#59. 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
#60. From him [Wilard Bennett] I learned how different a working laboratory is from a student laboratory. The answers are not known!
[While an undergraduate, doing experimental measurements in the laboratory of his professor, at Ohio State University.]
William M. Fowler
#61. A falsehood can run around the world while the truth is still putting its shoes on.
William J. Bennett
#62. America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
William Bennett
