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

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.
William Weld

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

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

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

So government acts as a safeguard of our property.
William Weld

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

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

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