President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.
William BennettThe 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.
William BennettThe 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. First things first. And planting the ideas of virtue, of good traits in the young, comes first. In the moral life, as in life itself, we take one step at a time. Every field has its complexities and controversies. And so does ethics. And every field has its basics. So too with values.
William Bennett