91 Quotes by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

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.

A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.

The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having...

People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.

Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.

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