All Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes
- ...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… Age
- As the family goes, so go the children. Children
- The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. Competence
- No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty. Everyone
- The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect. Benefit
- Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils. Best
- Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies… Balance
- If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people. Country
- The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness. Aggressiveness
- When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in… Bet
- Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to… Already Upon
- The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN prove… Bring
- The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth. Atmosphere
- There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated… Acquiring
- It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility… Common
- Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. Certainty
- 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… Central
- Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers… Acquire
- The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation… America
- The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life. American
- Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire. Act
- If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved. Devote
- To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart. Break
- You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts. Entitled
- The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard… Aired