Weld, William Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Farewell to Harry

  2002, role: actor , character name: Weld

Famous quotes by William Weld:

"I have absolutely no intention of switching parties under any circumstances ever."

"Micro managing anything is not a great role for government."

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

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

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

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

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

"So government acts as a safeguard of our property."

"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."

"One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties."

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

"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."

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

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

"The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government."

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

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

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

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