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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

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William Weld
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 31
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Smithtown
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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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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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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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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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The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.
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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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Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry that's its highest and best application.
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Nobody can tell me that no changes are necessary in Washington.
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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 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.
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The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.
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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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The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work, or studying for work: it is work.
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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 dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs.
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Gary Johnson was a strong governor.
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