William Weld
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"William Floyd Weld" is an American attorney, businessman and Republican Party (United States)/Republican politician from the Massachusetts/Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Weld, a Rockefeller Republican/moderate Republican, served as the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts/District of Massachusetts from 1981 to 1986 and as the head of the United States Department of Justice Criminal Division/Department of Justice Criminal Division from 1986 to 1988.

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

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

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

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.

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

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

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

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

So government acts as a safeguard of our property.