Author: William Weld

Quotes

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

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

- William Weld

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

- William Weld

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

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

- William Weld

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

- William Weld

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

- William Weld

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

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

- William Weld

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

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

- William Weld

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

- William Weld

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

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

- William Weld

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