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Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Daniel Patrick "Pat" Moynihan (March 16, 1927 – March 26, 2003) was an American politician, sociologist, and diplomat. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented New York in the United States Senate and served as an adviser to Republican U.S. President Richard Nixon.

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I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

Live, Radical, Radicals, Robber, Robber Baron, Robbers

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.

Children, Adults, Youth, Turbulences, Child, Adult

What is not discussed, will not be advanced.

Advanced, Discussed

To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.

Devastating, Honor, Loss, Past, Strip

No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.

Everyone, Governing, Guilty, Innocent

You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.

Facts, Opinion, Entitled

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.

Relationship, Growing Up, Women, Broken, Rational, Expectations

We've come full circle but the best remains the heart of the city, the greatest center of the greatest city, our Acropolis, where our Christmas tree is lighted.

Circles, Cities, City, Heart, Tree

Secrecy is for losers.

Loser, Losers, Secrecy

The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.

Atmosphere, Considered, Friend, Legislation, Politics, Social

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.

Borders, Different, Forecast, Moment, War, World

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.

Central, Change, Culture, Save, Society

So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now changed their system to state-socialism. Small elites run them, and they aren't sharing societies. They aren't even socialist. The power of the state has been merged with business property and you have the greatest concentration of power that's possible.

Running, War, Democracy, Socialist, Nations, Changed

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, Commonplace, Elderly, Future, Political, Quality

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

Deterioration, Fabric, Heart, Society

The status quo is working.

Quo, Status, Status Quo, Working

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.

Pride, Suffering, Quality, Ignoble, Nations

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

Devote, Get Involved, Involved, Social, Years

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

Force, American Life, Left, Liberal, American

The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.

Children, Government, Intact, Level, Marriage, Principal

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