Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes
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Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
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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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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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Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
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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 richest inheritance any child can have is a stable, loving, disciplined family life.
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To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.
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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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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 strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.
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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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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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People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.
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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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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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...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number is growing or declining, how they are distributed as between different ages, sexes, and different social classes and racial and ethnic groups, and again, which way these numbers are moving.
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In 1914, there were two countries in the world that required you to have a passport if you wanted to enter - Czarist Russia and the Ottomans. Anywhere else, you could come and go as you pleased.
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The status quo is working.
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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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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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What is not discussed, will not be advanced.
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The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.
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Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies which are free of sin? No, I don't. Do I think ours is, on balance, incomparably the most hopeful set of human relations the world has? Yes, I do.