Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes

I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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• I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Live
  • I Can
  • Radical