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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.

William Weld

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William Weld
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 31
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I would just say 2016 is a year when voters have to think for themselves and shouldn`t necessarily take it from the Rs and the Ds in Washington. But you have to vote for me because otherwise the other guy might win. That`s not really very substantive.
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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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So government acts as a safeguard of our property.
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There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.
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I think Gary Johnson would be capable of being a good chief executive and yes a commander in chief - Aleppo to the contrary, notwithstanding.
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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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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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Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.
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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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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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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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I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.
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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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[Donald Trump] would be chaos for the country, I think.
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I see a big difference between the Republican candidate and the Democratic candidate.
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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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