Quotes by Bill Bennett

About Bill Bennett:

William Richards Bennett is a son of the former Premier, W. A. C. Bennett. He was a 3rd cousin, twice removed, of R.B. Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada.
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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, Sta...

Bill Bennett

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

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You can be a virtuous person without faith in God.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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It's quite extraordinary to hear a supposedly learned person call the United States a leading terrorist nation, one of the leading terrorist nations in the world. It's false and very treacherous teaching.

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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.

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Do not give voice to bigotry.

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Poverty affects people of all races.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameBill Bennett
  • DescriptionCanadian politician born 1932
  • AliasesWilliam Richards Bennett
  • BornApril 14, 1932
  • CountryCanada
  • ProfessionPolitician