Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes


"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
(Related: Family, Measure, Past, states, United, Welfare)

"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
(Related: Facts, Opinion)

"The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life."
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
(Related: 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
(Related: Change, Politics, Success, Society, Truth, Conservative, Culture, Liberal)