William Bennett Quotes

The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.

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

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.

We are here to help one another along life's journey.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

It is ironic that anyone who appeals to religious values today runs the risk of being called 'divisive' or attacked as an enemy of pluralism.

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.

In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.

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

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.

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.

Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."

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

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.

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.

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

A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.

Blessed is he who expects no gratitude for he shall not be disappointed.