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Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.
William Weld
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It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.
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I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.
William Weld
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There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.
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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.
William Weld
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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.
William Weld
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It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.
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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.
William Weld
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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.
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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.
William Weld
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The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.
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Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.
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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.
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I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.
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I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.
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