William Weld
William Weld
William Floyd "Bill" Weldis an American attorney, businessman and Libertarian politician who served as a the 68th Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is the Libertarian Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2016 election...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 July 1945
CountryUnited States of America
government noble
Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.
gambling friendly machines
It's completely idiot proof." I told them they've got it all wrong. I want a machine that is "idiot friendly.
easter real believe
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.
issues departed orthodoxy
There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.
realizing helm anathema
I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.
thinking issues people
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.
government purpose application
Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.
thinking government people
Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.
incentives natural individual
Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.
school population states
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.
unemployment rate stills
The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.
gay thinking rights
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.
thinking two firsts
I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.
race ceilings needs
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.