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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. "
William Weld
Money
Soft
Which
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" We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody. "
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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 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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" Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea. "
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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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Got
" 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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Good
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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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" One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties. "
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Act
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" Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press. "
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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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Best
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" So government acts as a safeguard of our property. "
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Our
Government
" In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong. "
William Weld
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Slavery
Never
" I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum. "
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" I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me. "
William Weld
Realize
Come
Everything
" The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government. "
William Weld
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Three
Branches
" 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. "
William Weld
Only
Pretty
Deep
" There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy. "
William Weld
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Issues
Republican
" I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone. "
William Weld
Country
Alone
Understand
" Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government. "
William Weld
Government
Limit
Right
" I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change. "
William Weld
Change
Looking
Think
" It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office. "
William Weld
Office
Healthy
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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
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America
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" Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs. "
William Weld
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Never
Government
" Micro managing anything is not a great role for government. "
William Weld
Government
Great
Micro
" I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness. "
William Weld
Happiness
Think
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" The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites. "
William Weld
Blacks
Unemployment
High
" Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice. "
William Weld
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Government
" 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
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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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" Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government. "
William Weld
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