William Weld

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

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

“So government acts as a safeguard of our property.”

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

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

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

“Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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 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.”

“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.”