William John “Bill” Bennett (b.1943) is 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.
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Home is a shelter from storms—all sorts of storms.
—William Bennett
Topics: Home
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.
—William Bennett
Topics: Accomplishment, School
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.
—William Bennett
Topics: Difficulty, Challenges
A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
—William Bennett
Topics: Kindness
A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.
—William Bennett
Topics: Responsibility
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.
—William Bennett
Topics: Responsibility
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
—William Bennett
Topics: Thankfulness, Gratitude
Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed.
—William Bennett
Topics: Acceptance, Realization, Awareness
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 not attention to it and go about your business, you’ll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
—William Bennett
Topics: Happiness
Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they’re still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools.
—William Bennett
Topics: Education
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
—William Bennett
Topics: Business, Jobs, Attitude
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