William Weld Quotes - Page 3

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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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  Government, Purpose, Application

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

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  Government, Justice, Roles

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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, Liberty, Function

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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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  Government, Slavery, Century

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

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  Government, Office, Bully

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• 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, People, World

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

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  Government, Three, Branches

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

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  Ideas, People, Flow

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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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  Politics, Realizing, Anathema

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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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  Easter, Real, Believe

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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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  Money, Race, Ceilings

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• There's no Walter Cronkite to give you the final word each evening.

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  Giving, Finals, Evening

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

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  Change, Thinking, Two

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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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  Senior, Years, Income

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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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  Thinking, Issues, People

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

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  Issues, Departed, Orthodoxy

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