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" Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice. "
William Weld
Well
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Government
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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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" 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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" I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum. "
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" Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea. "
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" The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government. "
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" So government acts as a safeguard of our property. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government. "
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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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Going
" 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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Sense
Best
Government
" I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness. "
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Think
Us
" We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody. "
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Everybody
Wealth
Situation
" 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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Only
Pretty
Deep
" Micro managing anything is not a great role for government. "
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Government
Great
Micro
" Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press. "
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Press
Much
Boredom
" 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. "
William Weld
Freedom
Abortion
Think
" There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy. "
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Departed
Issues
Republican
" In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong. "
William Weld
Wrong
Slavery
Never
" Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government. "
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See
Problems
Liberals
" Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs. "
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Noble
Never
Government
" 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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Opportunity
Believe
Now
" The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites. "
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Blacks
Unemployment
High
" 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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Government
" One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties. "
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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. "
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" I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me. "
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