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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
We have to ask if it is once again the summer of 1914. Small acts of terror in the Middle East, in South Asia, could lead to cataclysm as they did in Sarajevo. Daniel Patrick Moynihan Read Quote
I come from a part of the world – raised in a part of the world where you’re born a Democrat, baptized a Democrat. Daniel Patrick Moynihan Read Quote
The principle of not negotiating with terrorists is the only thing we can hold on to. Daniel Patrick Moynihan Read Quote
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 Read Quote