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It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

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
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The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.
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[Donald Trump] just would not be in his element and I think he would wobble off course and I think the country just can't have that.
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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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Nobody can tell me that no changes are necessary in Washington.
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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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Gary Johnson and I have a good platform of having been fiscally conservative and we`re socially inclusive. And that`s different from both the other parties. The voters have a right to see that choice to be fiscally conservative and socially liberal. That doesn`t describe either of the other parties.
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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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I see a big difference between the Republican candidate and the Democratic candidate.
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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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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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I think the dignity of Congress and the dignity of the country demands something more than merely censure here.
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Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government.
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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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Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government.
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Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.
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I've been at some pains to say that I fear for the country if Mr.[DonALD] Trump should be elected. I think it's a candidacy without any parallel that I can recall.
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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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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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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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