Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts.

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

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

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good.