Patrick Moynihan
Patrick Moynihan
numbers system
We have a system that's been in place for 70 years. It works, ... but get the numbers right.
country violation-of-human-rights numbers
The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.
growing-up men numbers
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
listening wisest yorker
listening to probably the wisest New Yorker that we can know of at this time.
allowed looked quite reproduce yorkers
I can't quite reproduce the sense of New Yorkers in 1963 when we looked up and this had happened, ... What had we done or allowed to be done?
kenneth meet move
Move on; I mean, I've had enough of everything, but particularly Kenneth Starr, ... Meet The Press.
pages tax
There are now 9,451 pages in the tax code,
entitled facts
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts.
event positive season side welcome
We very much welcome on our side this proposal, ... This was a positive event and a welcome event in a season when there aren't many.
lady land senate send
We're going to send to the Senate not only the first lady of the land, but she will be the first lady of New York,
man miss peace rest share
a man of peace who did so much in his life. We know him so well, miss him so much and can only share the thought that he rest in peace.
anderson arab found held hole knock newspaper six terry tried
Terry Anderson was held six years in a hole in Beirut. He tried to get Arab newspaper clippings from the U.S. government, and found they were classified. Knock it off!
goodbye great party people state thank
For now, we say goodbye, we thank our party and the people of our state for a great run,
government years eight
A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.