Patrick Moynihan

Patrick Moynihan
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You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.
government liberty libertarian
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
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Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.
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There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future