William Weld Quotes

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• Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
• I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.
• Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.
• Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.
• 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…
• I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.
• 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…
• I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.
• In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
• Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.
• Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government.
• The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.
• Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government.
• Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.
• 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…
• The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.
• 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…
• 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…
• I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.
• 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…

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