If we haven’t become the Liberty Party of an undoubted future, let us take this fact: the great totalitarian regimes have died. The Soviet Union broke up along ethnic lines, as we always thought it would. The Chinese – am I wrong? – are becoming a commercial civilization. Daniel Patrick Moynihan Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life. Daniel Patrick Moynihan Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
If you don’t have 30 years to devote to social policy, don’t get involved. Daniel Patrick Moynihan Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The richest inheritance any child can have is a stable, loving, disciplined family life. Daniel Patrick Moynihan Read Quote