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Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

William Weld

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William Weld
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 31
Lawyer
Novelist
Politician
Smithtown
New York
William F. Weld
William Floyd Weld
William Floyd Bill Weld
William Weld
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Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.
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I think Hillary Clinton deserves to have people vouch for her other than members of the Democratic National Committee.
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We are making our case that we're fiscally responsible and socially inclusive and welcoming. And we think we've got on the merits the best ticket of the three parties, if you will, and so, you know, we'd like to get there.
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Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
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Donald Trump behaving like a wild man. I mean, I just can`t imagine that people want a human tornado sitting in the oval office.
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[Donald Trump] doesn't deal well with criticism and blame and I don't think he could competently manage the office of the presidency given the criticism and challenge that you face every single day as the President of the United States.
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If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social.
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The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.
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Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them they don't have an incentive to.
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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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In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
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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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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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I think Gary Johnson was probably expressing frustration at a series of pop quizzes. He actually was more authoritative on what to do in Syria before the Aleppo moment than any of the other candidates. And I think he called it about right. There is too many different rebel groups there. And it`s a terribly confused situation.
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