William Weld Quotes

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William Weld

Profession : Politician

Birth : July 31, 1945

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

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

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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 analysis in the economic area as well.

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My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.

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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 in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.

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Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.

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

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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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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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Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government.

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So government acts as a safeguard of our property.

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Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.

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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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One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

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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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The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

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There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.

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