Bill Bennett Quotations

You know, I've taught philosophy for years and one argues in the hypothetical all the time.

Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society.

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.

I don't mind paying the taxes I pay, which is pretty considerable.

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.

I can tell you about the education programs, because that's where I lived and worked.

I'm in that, I guess, top 2 percent or something.

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.

You can be a virtuous person without faith in God.

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.

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.

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.

Well, you know, to put forward a hypothesis, a morally impossible hypothesis to show why it is morally impossible and reprehensible seems to me is a standard way of talking about public policy and a standard way of teaching.

I think it's sad the person who leads our city can't make his payment.

The GOP was the party of Joe McCarthy. . . . Now, though, it is the Democrats who . . . stifle debate and smother thought.

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.

put forward a hypothesis, a morally impossible hypothesis, to show why it is morally impossible and reprehensible.

This is awfully discouraging, and he's not the leader anymore, and if this stuff is true, I'm very glad he's not our leader anymore,

I can't speak highly enough of Michael Fey. Throughout all of this, he's been excellent. He's had a tough year.

a million years to adapt to this heat. We water only new plants as they're getting established.