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My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.

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William Weld
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 31
Lawyer
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Smithtown
New York
William F. Weld
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I suggest to you that increasing the size of America's economic pie - which can be achieved only if everybody has a seat at the table - is the most important challenge facing our country today.
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We thought for the longest time we might have a chance to run the table because we're such nice guys and centrist party, etcetera, but not getting into the debates really sort of foreclosed that option.
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One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.
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I talk with Gary [Johnson] every other day, we're on different coasts usually but we keep in touch and - yeah, no I do not agree with that release.
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Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
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We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race.
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There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.
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Gary Johnson was a strong governor.
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It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.
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The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.
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I think Gary Johnson is just in the wrong place trying to be President of the United States. And that`s not a secret. I do not view those other two candidates, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton the same way. I think very highly of Mrs. Clinton. I think she is very well qualified.
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Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.
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[Donald Trump] would be chaos for the country, I think.
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I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.
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Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.
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Gary Johnson and I have a good platform of having been fiscally conservative and we`re socially inclusive. And that`s different from both the other parties. The voters have a right to see that choice to be fiscally conservative and socially liberal. That doesn`t describe either of the other parties.
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