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William Weld
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 31
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Smithtown
New York
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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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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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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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Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.
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I think Gary Johnson is just in the wrong place trying to be President of the United States. And that`s not a secret. I do not view those other two candidates, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton the same way. I think very highly of Mrs. Clinton. I think she is very well qualified.
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I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.
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Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.
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[Donald Trump] would be chaos for the country, I think.
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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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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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We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race.
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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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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.
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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 unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.
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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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There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.
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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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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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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.
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