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The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Age: 76 †
Born: 1927
Born: March 16
Died: 2003
Died: March 26
Diplomat
Former United States Senator
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
Daniel Patrick Pat Moynihan
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The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.
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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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The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.
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Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.
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I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.
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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 status quo is working.
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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.
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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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The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.
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