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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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William Weld
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 31
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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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Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.
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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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Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.
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Nobody can tell me that no changes are necessary in Washington.
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The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.
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I`m an old duck hunter. I like to go hunting where the ducks are. We`re looking for votes. I think maybe poaching some of those soft Donald Trump Republican votes would be the place to go.
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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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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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[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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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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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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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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Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.
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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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I see a big difference between the Republican candidate and the Democratic candidate.
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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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I think the dignity of Congress and the dignity of the country demands something more than merely censure here.
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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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