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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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William Weld
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 31
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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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We speak for all citizens of the Commonwealth when we say that society can draw great hope for the future because of the example which these young people are giving by their creative and constructive responses to the challenges which confront our communities and dedication to help those most in need.
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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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I think Hillary Clinton deserves to have people vouch for her other than members of the Democratic National Committee.
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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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Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.
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I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.
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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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Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
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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 the dignity of Congress and the dignity of the country demands something more than merely censure here.
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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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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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Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their 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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Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.
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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 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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In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
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