A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
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
Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
The Democrats have prevailed because, at heart, we have embodied a great idea, which is that an elected government can be the… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
We used to play marbles for keeps. If you lost, you lost. It is the same way with politics, but not everybody… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that… — 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
