The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn,… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
The richest inheritance any child can have is a stable, loving, disciplined family life. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that there will continue to be bumps, some serious crises indeed in our relationship with China… Neither membership in the… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its elderly. Just… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
“In the era of security clearances, to be an Irish Catholic became prima facie evidence of loyalty. Harvard men were to be checked; Fordham… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than not, this… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals? — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
