First...we should not put any pressure on Israel (a democracy) that it believes it cannot handle in negotiating with those who show very little respect for democracy. Second, we should require a signed affidavit — in English and Arabic — from Yasser Arafat declaring that foreign policy, peace negotiations, and security are under the sole bailiwick of the prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas. Third, Abbas needs to make guarantees to the settlers in what will become the Palestinian state: At a minimum, they should be given the choice of where they want to vote — in Israel or in Palestine. Arabs in Israel-proper, after all, vote for and serve in the Israeli parliament. Fourth, Abbas needs to cleanse all official maps, and all state-sponsored schoolbooks, of the lie that his state, proposed or otherwise, encompasses Israel in toto...

Finally, the United States has a moral and legal obligation to maintain its embassy and ambassador in Jerusalem. That sentence comes from the 2000 Republican-party platform. Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and should remain an undivided city accessible to people of all faiths."

• National Radio Show Host, "Bill Bennett's Morning in America"
• U.S. "Drug Czar," 1989-1990
• U.S. Secretary of Education, 1985-1988
• Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1981-1985

• Washington Fellow of the Claremont Institute
• Co-Founder and Chairman of K12
• Chairman of Americans for Victory over Terrorism
• Co-chairman of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America with former New York Governor Mario Cuomo
• Named the "leading spokesman of the Traditional Values wing of the Republican Party," Sunday New York Times, April 2005