Bill Bennett Quotes (9 Quotes)

I've seen this city come and go, and I'm here to protect what's good for our city. It's not the easiest place to sit.

Well, you know, to put forward a hypothesis, a morally impossible hypothesis to show why it is morally impossible and reprehensible seems to me is a standard way of talking about public policy and a standard way of teaching.

That's what former education secretary and drug czar Bill Bennett did last Wednesday on his radio show . When a caller suggested that legal abortions had depleted the tax base for Social Security, Bennett counseled against such utilitarian arguments. I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you couldif that were your sole purposeyou could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down, ... That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky.

I would caution people not to store gasoline in large quantities, ... It leaves the potential for a fire or even excessive fumes that wouldn't be there at a normal time.

We already have a security plan in place what we're looking to do now is to improve our response plan for when something happens. We're not so much worried about someone hijacking our vehicles as we are about one of our trucks being stolen and used as a weapon, or something dangerous being put on one of our vehicles while the driver is making deliveries. That's what really concerns us.

The GOP was the party of Joe McCarthy. . . . Now, though, it is the Democrats who . . . stifle debate and smother thought.

those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas, too frequent among us. . . .

put forward a hypothesis, a morally impossible hypothesis, to show why it is morally impossible and reprehensible.

I think it's sad the person who leads our city can't make his payment.