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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The mudslinging has begun.
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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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If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.
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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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To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.
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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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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 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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At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.
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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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Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.
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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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What is not discussed, will not be advanced.
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The status quo is working.
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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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The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.
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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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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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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 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.