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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
Lawyer
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Smithtown
New York
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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 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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The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.
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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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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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Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government.
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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 dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs.
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I see a big difference between the Republican candidate and the Democratic candidate.
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[Donald Trump] doesn't deal well with criticism and blame and I don't think he could competently manage the office of the presidency given the criticism and challenge that you face every single day as the President of the United States.
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Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.
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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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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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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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Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
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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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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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I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.
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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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One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.
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