50 Quotes by William Weld

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.

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.

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

I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.

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

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

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