Quote

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.

William Weld

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Today
Table
Country
Tables
Pie
Important
Size
Seat
Challenge
Suggest
Challenges
Facing
Economic
Increasing
Everybody
Seats
America
Achieved

More quotes by William Weld

Image
Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government.
William Weld
Image
I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.
William Weld
Image
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.
William Weld
Image
I think Gary Johnson was probably expressing frustration at a series of pop quizzes. He actually was more authoritative on what to do in Syria before the Aleppo moment than any of the other candidates. And I think he called it about right. There is too many different rebel groups there. And it`s a terribly confused situation.
William Weld
Image
[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.
William Weld
Image
I mean that psychologically. I think [Donald Trump] showed in the debates when he encounters criticism or challenge he behaves the way a bully would. He just doesn't take it well.
William Weld
Image
Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.
William Weld
Image
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.
William Weld
Image
[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.
William Weld
Image
I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.
William Weld
Image
Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.
William Weld
Image
The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.
William Weld
Image
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.
William Weld
Image
Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.
William Weld
Image
It's completely idiot proof. I told them they've got it all wrong. I want a machine that is idiot friendly.
William Weld
Image
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.
William Weld
Image
Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them they don't have an incentive to.
William Weld
Image
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.
William Weld
Image
I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.
William Weld
Image
Nobody can tell me that no changes are necessary in Washington.
William Weld