William Weld Quotes

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William Weld

Profession : Politician

Birth : July 31, 1945

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

William Weld

We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.

William Weld

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

William Weld

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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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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I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.

William Weld

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

William Weld

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

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

William Weld

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

William Weld

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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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.

William Weld

The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.

William Weld