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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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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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 mudslinging has begun.
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The richest inheritance any child can have is a stable, loving, disciplined family life.
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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 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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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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Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.
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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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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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To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.
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People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.
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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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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 world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.
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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 status quo is working.
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Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.
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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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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.