Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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

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

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

A player cannot become a world champion overnight. To become a champion, a player has to sacrifice a lot and to devote much of his time practising and training.

Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.