William Weld Quotes

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work, or studying for work: it is work.

Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government.

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.

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

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

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

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

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

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

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

I think the dignity of Congress and the dignity of the country demands something more than merely censure here.

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

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

It's completely idiot proof." I told them they've got it all wrong. I want a machine that is "idiot friendly.

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 is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

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

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

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

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

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.

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government.

So government acts as a safeguard of our property.

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

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