William Bennett Quotes

This country is a lot better at teaching self-esteem than it is at teaching math.

Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.

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.

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.

I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.

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.

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.

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.

Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?

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.

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

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.

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.

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.

Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing ... [We] need ... to set definite boundaries on our appetites.

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.

And I'm supposed to believe that Reagan was a great leader? This is who he chose as the Secretary of Education ...

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

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,

President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.

It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.

Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.

What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.