William Weld Quotes

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

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

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

[Donald Trump] just would not be in his element and I think he would wobble off course and I think the country just can't have that.

I have a lot to say about Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton that has not been said by others recently and that I think needs to be said. I mean I've known her for 40 years. I worked with her, I know her well professionally. I know her well personally. I know her to be a person of high moral character. A reliable person and an honest person, however Mr. [Donald] Trump may rant and rave to the contrary. So I'm happy to say that. People can make their own choices.

[James] Comey's got a good background but there's nothing there, so far as it appears. Nothing there. So he wrote the letter to the eight Republican committee members copied to the Democrats saying 'you know some emails have turned up, we've looked at a lot of emails now it turns out there are even more emails - we don't know what's there, so there's absolutely no evidence whatsoever that could be of interest to anyone until we conduct our multi-week, multi-month investigation.

I think Gary Johnson was probably expressing frustration at a series of pop quizzes. He actually was more authoritative on what to do in Syria before the Aleppo moment than any of the other candidates. And I think he called it about right. There is too many different rebel groups there. And it`s a terribly confused situation.

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

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.

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

So government acts as a safeguard of our property.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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