Bad news Quote by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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

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

People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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

It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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

“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

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

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

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan