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

~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

Topics: Because Causes Common Democrats Elected Embodied Embrace Free Free People Government Great Great Idea Great Things Heart Idea Instrument People Purpose Things Which

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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.

~Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Topics: Central Change Conservative Culture Determines Itself Liberal Politics Save Society Success Truth Truth Is

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

~Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Topics: Any Child Disciplined Family Family Life Inheritance Life Loving Richest Stable

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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.

~Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Topics: Disintegration Expansion Family Family Structure Generation Measure Over Past Programs States Steady Structure Taken United United States Welfare

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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.

~Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Topics: Aggressiveness Ambition Corporations Country Extraordinary Founded Great Intelligence Ordinary Ordinary People People Were

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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

Topics: Acquire Agencies Been Birth Conservatives Endowed Good Government Healthy Liberals Life Namely Powers Seem Skepticism Somehow Unable

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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

Topics: Allies Argument Around Century Friends How Ignoring Looking Most Must Narrow Nor Only Ourselves Rushing Seen Serve Should Survived Terms Thinking Will World 20Th Century

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The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

~Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Topics: American American Life Any Destructive Force Left Liberal Life Rigid

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: March 16th, 1927

Died: March 26th, 2003

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