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William Weld
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 31
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Smithtown
New York
William F. Weld
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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 courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.
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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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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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It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.
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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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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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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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Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government.
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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 don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.
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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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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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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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I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.
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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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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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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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You know in fairness Gary [Johnson] and I have not agreed on a number of substantive issues in this campaign, tax policy, we've had some influence on each other, I think I've had some influence on him, on constructive engagement around the world, he's had some influence on me in criminal justice reform issues.
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Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
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