Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes
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We've come full circle but the best remains the heart of the city, the greatest center of the greatest city, our Acropolis, where our Christmas tree is lighted.
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Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.
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I did not have a lot of spare time after I was about eleven because in my youth, young people used to try to find ways of making money after school. From about age eleven on, I either shined shoes or did something such.
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Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
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The richest inheritance any child can have is a stable, loving, disciplined family life.
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The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.
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The Democrats have prevailed because, at heart, we have embodied a great idea, which is that an elected government can be the instrument of the common purpose of a free people; that government can embrace great causes and do great things.
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At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult. In between, extraordinary turbulences take place.
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The mudslinging has begun.
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If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.
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At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.
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To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.
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Welfare became a term of opprobrium - a contentious, often vindictive area of political conflict in which liberals and conservatives clashed and children were lost sight of.
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People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.
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I was more in opposition within my own party, and for a long while, I was part of the opposition. I had - Scoop Jackson was my candidate in '76. I made no bones about that.
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If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.
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The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.
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To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.
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Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.
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What is not discussed, will not be advanced.
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The principal challenge of the next phase of the Negro revolution is to make certain that equality of results will now follow. If we do not, there will be no social peace in the United States for generations.
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We used to play marbles for keeps. If you lost, you lost. It is the same way with politics, but not everybody knows this.
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Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.
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The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.