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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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Welfare became a term of opprobrium - a contentious, often vindictive area of political conflict in which liberals and conservatives clashed and children were lost sight of.

~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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We used to play marbles for keeps. If you lost, you lost. It is the same way with politics, but not everybody knows this.

~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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Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

~Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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In my view - which could be wrong, but it is my field - there is no better formula for social instability than to divide a society between two ascribed characteristics that are seen as opposite.

~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 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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I was in charge of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So I had some of the most brilliant mathematical statistical minds in the country, who would put together the modern technology, if you like, of understanding the economy and tracking it and trying to influence it.

~Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: March 16th, 1927

Died: March 26th, 2003

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