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34 quotes by William Weld

William Floyd Weld (born July 31, 1945) is an American attorney, businessman and Republican politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Weld, a moderate Republican, served as the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts from 1981 to 1986 and as the head of the Department of Justice Criminal Division from 1986 to 1988. He was elected Governor of Massachusetts in 1990 and served as the 68th Governor from 1991 to 1997. He was...
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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... →

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Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed... →

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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 transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.

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I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

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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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Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

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Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

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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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Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

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Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.

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I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the... →

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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... →

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