The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
In my view - which could be wrong, but it is my field - there is no better formula for social instability than to divide a society between two ascribed characteristics that are seen as opposite. — 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
