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Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.
William Weld
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Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government.
William Weld
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One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.
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The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.
William Weld
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Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government.
William Weld
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I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.
William Weld
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Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.
William Weld
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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.
William Weld
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Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.
William Weld
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We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.
William Weld
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In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
William Weld
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I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.
William Weld
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