Quotes by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

…there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number is growing or declining, how they are distributed as between different ages, sexes, and different social classes and racial and ethnic groups, and again, which way these numbers are moving.

Government

Moving

Sex

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.

Civilization

Elderly

Political

A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.

Eight

Responsible Government

Years

Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies which are free of sin? No, I don’t. Do I think ours is, on balance, incomparably the most hopeful set of human relations the world has? Yes, I do.

Hopeful

Perfect

Thinking

As the family goes, so go the children.

Children

Marriage

At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult. In between, extraordinary turbulences take place.

Adults

Children

Youth

At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.

Deterioration

Fabric

Heart

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

Citizens

Desire

Liberty

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

Education

Freedom

Truth

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.

Energy

Government

Inner Peace

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Agency

Ambition

American Life

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Borders

Break

Breakup

Business

Capacity To Love

Change

Children

Circles

Cities

Citizens

Civilization

Complaining

Complicated

Constitution

Country

Culture

Debtors

Democracy

Desire

Deterioration

Devil

Different

Distinction

Doe

Done

Doubt

Education

Eight

Elderly

Enemy

Energy

Enough

Entitled

Evil

Fabric

Facts

Family

Force

Freedom

Get Involved

Given

Goal

Governing

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Quotes by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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.

A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.

Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies which are free of sin? No, I don’t. Do I think ours is, on balance, incomparably the most hopeful set of human relations the world has? Yes, I do.

As the family goes, so go the children.

At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult. In between, extraordinary turbulences take place.

At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.

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

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

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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