Daniel Patrick Moynihan Famous Quotes
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."
Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotations
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
Sallust
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
Julius Henry Marx
"The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How's the President'"
Will Rogers
"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
Blaise Pascal
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
"When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter."
Logan Pearsall Smith
Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give.
Damien Hess
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
Menander
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway
"Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings."
Felix Frankfurter