William John Bennett Famous Quotes
"The shortage of student loans may require ... divestiture of certain sorts-stereo divestiture, automobile divestiture, three-weeks-at-the-beach divestiture."
Our common language is ... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
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.
"If my own son, who is now 10 months, came to me and said, 'You promised to pay for my tuition at Harvard how about giving me 50,000 instead to start a little business' I might think that was a good idea."
"Most certification today is pure 'credentialism.' It must begin to reflect our demand for excellence, not our appreciation of parchment."
"There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes."
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
William John Bennett Quotations
"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory."
William Hazlitt
Every crowd has a silver lining.
Phineas Taylor Barnum
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
A free lunch is only found in mousetraps.
John Capozzi
Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.
Niels Henrik David Bohr
"A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present."
Thomas Fuller
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
Edward Eggleston
"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things."
Niccolo Machiavelli
"Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men."
Kin Hubbard
"Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it."
John Christian Bovee