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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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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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There's no Walter Cronkite to give you the final word each evening.
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There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.
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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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Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government.
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[Donald Trump] would be chaos for the country, I think.
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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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One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.
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Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
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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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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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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 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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Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.
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It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.
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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 transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.
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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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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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