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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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Wrongs
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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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Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government.
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I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.
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So government acts as a safeguard of our property.
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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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People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.
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I think it would be a threat [Donald's Trump presidency] to the conduct of our foreign policy and our position in the world at large.
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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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The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.
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Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry that's its highest and best application.
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[Donald Trump] just would not be in his element and I think he would wobble off course and I think the country just can't have that.
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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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Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.
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The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.
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I've been at some pains to say that I fear for the country if Mr.[DonALD] Trump should be elected. I think it's a candidacy without any parallel that I can recall.
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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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It's completely idiot proof. I told them they've got it all wrong. I want a machine that is idiot friendly.
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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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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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I think in the real world that's probably correct. That would give federal matching funds. It would mean no more ballot access woes.
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