Patrick Moynihan
Patrick Moynihan
atmosphere politics social
The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.
rights law doubt
I have no doubt that there will continue to be bumps, some serious crises indeed in our relationship with China.... Neither membership in the WTO nor normalized trade relations with the United States will magically impose the rule of law on China or institute deep-seeded respect for human rights. But it certainly has potential to advance those purposes.
loser secrecy
Secrecy is for losers.
country land democracy
Liberty lives in protest and democracy prospers under conditions of change. When we travel about the world and come to a country whose newspapers are filled with bad news we feel that liberty lives in that land. When we come to a country whose newspapers are filled with good news, we feel differently.
children may firsts
The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.
people important information
Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.
status-quo
The status quo is working.
children adults youth
At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult. In between, extraordinary turbulences take place.
loss past honor
To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.
years social policy
If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.
country men jail
When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.
war government support
Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to begin building the supports for the era of openness that is already upon us.
civilization elderly political
A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its elderly. Just as surely, the future of a society may be forecast by how it cares for its young.
winning important stories
What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than not, this is the more important story: What policy wins if the one being disclosed loses?