Words matter. These are the best William Weld Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.
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.
One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.
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.
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.
Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.
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.
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.
Liberals often don’t see the problems, and conservatives don’t see the promise, of government.
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.
It’s healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.
I don’t understand the Democrats’ approach to Social Security in this country, and I’m not alone.
I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.
Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.
It’s not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.
Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that’s its highest and best application.
Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don’t have an incentive to.
Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
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.
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.
Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.
