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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
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Sociologist
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Writer
Tulsa
Oklahoma
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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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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 central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
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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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If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.
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The status quo is working.
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In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.
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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 single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
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You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.
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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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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 Lord looks after drunks and Americans.
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Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.
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No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.
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Things become complicated if there are enough people to complexify them.
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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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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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The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.
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