91 Quotes by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace.

There are some mistakes only someone with a Ph.D. can make.

I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.

The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.

A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its elderly. Just as surely, the future of a society may be forecast by how it cares for its young.

At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.

So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now changed their system to state-socialism. Small elites run them, and they aren't sharing societies. They aren't even socialist. The power of the state has been merged with business property and you have the greatest concentration of power that's possible.

If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.