So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now changed their system to state-socialism. Small elites run them, and they aren't sharing societies. They aren't even socialist. The power of the state has been merged with business property and you have the greatest concentration of power that's possible.
Daniel Patrick MoynihanThe world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.
Daniel Patrick MoynihanThe liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.
Daniel Patrick MoynihanGovernment cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It can provide outlets for moral energies, but it cannot create those energies.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan