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William Weld
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 31
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Smithtown
New York
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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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People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.
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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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Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government.
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Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
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I think Hillary Clinton deserves to have people vouch for her other than members of the Democratic National Committee.
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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 coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.
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[Donald Trump] would be chaos for the country, I think.
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