William Weld - Quotes

Quotes

• "I happen to think that individual freedom should extend to a woman's right to choose. I want the government out of your pocket book and your bedroom."

• "There’s no one so brave and wise as the politician who’s not running for office and who’s not going to be…"

• "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."

• "The best social program is a good job."

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

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

• "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."

• "I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country and I'm not alone."

• "My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayers' money...."

• "Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea."

• "There's an alliance in the environmental area and an appropriate one, between the government and the little guy."

• "I think coercive taxation is theft and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum."

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

• "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."

• "Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to."

• "In health care, education and to some extent transportation—but less so, I think—government monopolies have proved to be a disaster. "

• "Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press."

• "Now isn't that just me?" he said as he poured a bottle of ale into a champagne glass. "Beer taste on a champagne budget."

• "I believe the government should stay out of your wallet and out of your bedroom" which drew a mix of applause and boos at the 1992 Republican National Convention.