16 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes for You to Enjoy

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

American Politician

Born: Mar 16, 1927

Died: Mar 26, 2003

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Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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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. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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We must not let ourselves be seen as rushing around the world looking for arguments... Nor should we let ourselves be seen as ignoring allies, disillusioning friends, thinking only of ourselves in the most narrow terms. That is not how we survived the 20th century. Nor will it serve in the 21st. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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In 1914, there were two countries in the world that required you to have a passport if you wanted to enter - Czarist Russia and the Ottomans. Anywhere else, you could come and go as you pleased. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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The richest inheritance any child can have is a stable, loving, disciplined family life. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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It's always been a subtext of our secular optimism that you solve the economic problem, and all other things sort of take care of themselves. Well, we seem to be doing well on the economic side - we are doing very well - and the other things are not solving - they're compounding. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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I did not have a lot of spare time after I was about eleven because in my youth, young people used to try to find ways of making money after school. From about age eleven on, I either shined shoes or did something such. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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The principle of not negotiating with terrorists is the only thing we can hold on to. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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I was more in opposition within my own party, and for a long while, I was part of the opposition. I had - Scoop Jackson was my candidate in '76. I made no bones about that. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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The Democrats have prevailed because, at heart, we have embodied a great idea, which is that an elected government can be the instrument of the common purpose of a free people; that government can embrace great causes and do great things. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The principal challenge of the next phase of the Negro revolution is to make certain that equality of results will now follow. If we do not, there will be no social peace in the United States for generations. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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