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
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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.
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There are no mental jobs, only mental attitudes.
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Our Transportation Department has followed the progress of the union contract negotiations closely so we were aware of the potential for a strike for many months. As a result we had been having informal conversations with Penn transportation personnel for well over two months in preparation for how we would respond.
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Some of us in college, some of us in high school, you know, did things that we weren't particularly happy about or proud of later, speaking here for myself,
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I was putting forward a bad argument in order to put it down, ... They reported and emphasized only the abhorrent argument, not my shooting it down.
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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.
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Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be.
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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.
A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
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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.
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Anytime you have a strike it is a difficult situation and we hope an agreement can be reached quickly. In the mean time, we are prepared to continue to provide the additional services until the situation is resolved.
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a bad argument in order to put it down.
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an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky.
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an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do.