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. |