Bill Bennett quotes:

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, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price.

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.

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

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

You can be a virtuous person without faith in God.

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.

Do not give voice to bigotry.

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.

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

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