Bill Bennett
Bill Bennett
William Richards "Bill" Bennett, PC, OBCwas the 27th Premier of the Canadian province of British Columbia 1975–1986. He was a son of Annie Elizabeth Mayand former Premier, W. A. C. Bennett. He was a 3rd cousin, twice removed, of R.B. Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 August 1932
CountryCanada
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It there any nation that acknowledges its errors and its sins and its crimes and the things it has done that are not consistent with its principles more than the United States? No, there is not.
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I've seen this city come and go, and I'm here to protect what's good for our city. It's not the easiest place to sit.
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put forward a hypothesis, a morally impossible hypothesis, to show why it is morally impossible and reprehensible.
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I would caution people not to store gasoline in large quantities, ... It leaves the potential for a fire or even excessive fumes that wouldn't be there at a normal time.
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The GOP was the party of Joe McCarthy. . . . Now, though, it is the Democrats who . . . stifle debate and smother thought.
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The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.
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You can be a virtuous person without faith in God.
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I've got a life, you know, take me in the totality of my actions and I'll tell you, I will stand with my record.
I'm in that, I guess, top 2 percent or something.
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I can tell you about the education programs, because that's where I lived and worked.
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If you can take my tax money and assure me that it'll go to the right purpose, that it will help the poor, then fine. But I'm not sure a lot of it does. In fact, I know a lot of it doesn't.
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I don't mind paying the taxes I pay, which is pretty considerable.
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The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price.
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Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society.