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William Weld
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 31
Lawyer
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Smithtown
New York
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We're getting to the point where we're impinging on democratic institutions in this country and I think, you know, it takes a certain - not a suspension of disbelief - but willingness to go along with other people to get the ship of state going forward. I'm not sure that happens in a [Donald] Trump presidency, frankly.
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Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.
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Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.
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So government acts as a safeguard of our property.
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I`m a member of Societies of Former World Leaders. And I`ve always been sort of in favor of constructive engagement around the world. And Gary Johnson has influenced me on criminal justice reform. I think I had some influence in discussions with him about the approach to international affairs.
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I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well.
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[Donald Trump] would be chaos for the country, I think.
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The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.
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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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There's no Walter Cronkite to give you the final word each evening.
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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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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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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 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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We speak for all citizens of the Commonwealth when we say that society can draw great hope for the future because of the example which these young people are giving by their creative and constructive responses to the challenges which confront our communities and dedication to help those most in need.
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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 government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.
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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 Hillary Clinton deserves to have people vouch for her other than members of the Democratic National Committee.
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Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.
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