Quotes by William Weld

About William Weld:

William Floyd Weld is an American attorney, businessman and Republican politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Weld, a moderate Republican, served as the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts from 1981 to 1986 and as the head of the Department of Justice Criminal Division from 1986 to 1988.
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Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government.

William Weld

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

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

William Weld

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

William Weld

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

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

There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.

William Weld

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

William Weld

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

William Weld

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

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

The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.

William Weld

Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.

William Weld

People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.

William Weld

Author Bio

  • NameWilliam Weld
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornJuly 31, 1945
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionLawyer; Novelist