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There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.
William Weld
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William Weld
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 31
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Smithtown
New York
William F. Weld
William Floyd Weld
William Floyd Bill Weld
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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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Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.
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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 have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.
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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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