William Weld Quotes

William Weld — American Politician born on July 31, 1945,

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... (wikipedia)

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.

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

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

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