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The principal objective of American government at every level should be to
see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
As Daniel Patrick Moynihan said, "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
— Chris Rodda
If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
There are some mistakes only someone with a Ph.D. can make.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
As the family goes, so go the children.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
What is not discussed, will not be advanced.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Things become complicated if there are enough people to complexify them.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The Lord looks after drunks and Americans.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having ...
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.
— 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 in jail.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Secrecy is for losers.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The status quo is working.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan