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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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If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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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 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.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
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.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
The richest inheritance any child can have is a stable, loving, disciplined family life.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.
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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.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
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.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.
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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.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
What is not discussed, will not be advanced.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
...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.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
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.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.
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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.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan