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Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at...

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The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a...

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The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of t...

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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 to his own facts.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

In the era of security clearances, to be an Irish Catholic became prima facie evidence of loyalty. H...

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The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of...

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Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Former United States Senator

Born: 1927-03-16

Died: 2003-03-26

Daniel Patrick Moynihan (March 16, 1927 – March 26, 2003) was an American politician and diplomat. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented New York in the United States Senate from 1977 until 2001 after serving as an adviser to President Richard Nixon, and as the United States' ambassador to India and to the United Nations.More