Quotes from William Weld

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm an old duck hunter. I like to go hunting where the ducks are. We're looking for votes. I think maybe poaching some of those soft Donald Trump Republican votes would be the place to go.

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

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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