The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
Daniel Patrick MoynihanIn too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.
Daniel Patrick MoynihanIf we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.
Daniel Patrick MoynihanThere 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 - that community asks for and gets chaos.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan