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Daniel Patrick Moynihan
American
Politician
About the author
If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
American
Politician
#Policy
#Years
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,
American
Politician
#Family
#Past
#Welfare
#states
#United
#Measure
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
American
Politician
#Opinion
#Facts
The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
American
Politician
#Life
#American
#Force
#Liberal
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.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
American
Politician
#Success
#Conservative
#Culture
#Society
#Truth
#Change
#Politics
#Liberal