Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
William BennettIf we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.
William BennettThe secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
William BennettAmerica's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
William BennettNothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."
William BennettPeople of good character are not all going to come down on the same side of difficult political and social issues. Good people - people of character and moral literacy - can be conservative, and good people can be liberal. We must not permit our disputes over thorny political questions to obscure the obligation we have to offer instruction to all our young people in the area in which we have, as a society, reached a consensus: namely, on the importance of good character, and some of its pervasive particulars.
William Bennett