“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.”
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Famous Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes
“Things become complicated if there are enough people to complexify them.”
Source: Family and Nation: The Godkin Lectures, Harvard University
Source: Family and Nation: The Godkin Lectures, Harvard University
Source: Coping: On the Practice of Government
“It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs.”
“To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.”
“I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?”
“We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.”
Source: Secrecy: The American Experience
Source: Coping: On the Practice of Government
“If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.”
“Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.”
“There are some mistakes only someone with a Ph.D. can make.”
“The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.”
“A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.”
“The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.”
“People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.”
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”
Source: Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary
Source: Miles to Go: A Personal History of Social Policy
“The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.”
Source: Toward a national urban policy
“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.”
“You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.”