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Quotes by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  • The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.
  • Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
  • Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good.
  • The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.