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Daniel Patrick Moynihan [1927-2003] American

Rank: 101
Politician, Former member of the United States Senate

Daniel Patrick "Pat" Moynihan was an American politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the United States Senate for New York in 1976, and was re-elected three times. He declined to run for re-election in 2000.

Government, Good, Intelligence, Politics

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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.	Good, Government	101
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.		102
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.	Government	103
The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.		104
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.	Politics	105
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.		106
Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.		107
The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.	Intelligence	108
If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.		109

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