91 Quotes by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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

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

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.

I was more in opposition within my own party, and for a long while, I was part of the opposition. I had - Scoop Jackson was my candidate in '76. I made no bones about that.

The richest inheritance any child can have is a stable, loving, disciplined family life.

I come from a part of the world - raised in a part of the world where you're born a Democrat, baptized a Democrat.

I was in charge of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So I had some of the most brilliant mathematical statistical minds in the country, who would put together the modern technology, if you like, of understanding the economy and tracking it and trying to influence it.

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.

In 1914, there were two countries in the world that required you to have a passport if you wanted to enter - Czarist Russia and the Ottomans. Anywhere else, you could come and go as you pleased.