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Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Age: 76 †
Born: 1927
Born: March 16
Died: 2003
Died: March 26
Diplomat
Former United States Senator
Military Personnel
Politician
Sociologist
Teacher
Writer
Tulsa
Oklahoma
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A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its elderly. Just as surely, the future of a society may be forecast by how it cares for its young.
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The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.
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The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.
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Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
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People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.
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The nature of the new world system was not so different from the old. It was for the moment more stable, but a reasonable forecast would be that Africa in particular had a century of border wars ahead of it.
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If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.
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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 is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.
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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.
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The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.
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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 in the United States.
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The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
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What is not discussed, will not be advanced.
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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 of government agencies to do good.
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Secrecy is for losers.
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Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It can provide outlets for moral energies, but it cannot create those energies.
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The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.
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The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.
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If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.
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It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs.
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