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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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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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It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs.
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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 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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No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.
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What is not discussed, will not be advanced.
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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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Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to begin building the supports for the era of openness that is already upon us.
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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 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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There is one unmistakable lesson in American history a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future - that community asks for and gets chaos.
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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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You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.
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Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.
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At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.
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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 atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.
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Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.
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The Lord looks after drunks and Americans.
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