Unlike Senator Helms, I think a proper role for government-and a major achievement-would be to contribute to a sense of community internationally. |
We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody. |
We have to restrain the bad tendencies of human beings, and that includes keeping people from injuring each other economically. |
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. |
When I was the governor of Massachusetts, we used taxpayers' money to stimulate growth in biotech and telecommunications, two high-end industries that were tailor-made for the state because of all the universities. |