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Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government.

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William Weld
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 31
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Smithtown
New York
William F. Weld
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Gary Johnson was a strong governor.
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There's no Walter Cronkite to give you the final word each evening.
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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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Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government.
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The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.
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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 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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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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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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Nobody can tell me that no changes are necessary in Washington.
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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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I think in the real world that's probably correct. That would give federal matching funds. It would mean no more ballot access woes.
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We thought for the longest time we might have a chance to run the table because we're such nice guys and centrist party, etcetera, but not getting into the debates really sort of foreclosed that option.
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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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I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.
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So government acts as a safeguard of our property.
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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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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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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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I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.
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