Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.