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Daniel P. Moynihan Quotes

«The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.»
«Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.»
«The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.»
«The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.»
«Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.»