William Weld

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.