Quotes from William Weld

So government acts as a safeguard of our property.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

Donald Trump behaving like a wild man. I mean, I just can't imagine that people want a human tornado sitting in the oval office.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I've been at some pains to say that I fear for the country if Mr.[DonALD] Trump should be elected. I think it's a candidacy without any parallel that I can recall.