It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble… — 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
The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having. — 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
We must not let ourselves be seen as rushing around the world looking for arguments... Nor should we let ourselves be seen… — 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
In 1914, there were two countries in the world that required you to have a passport if you wanted to enter -… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Liberty lives in protest and democracy prospers under conditions of change. When we travel about the world and come to a country… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
The nature of the new world system was not so different from the old. It was for the moment more stable, but… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
I come from a part of the world - raised in a part of the world where you're born a Democrat, baptized… — 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
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
