Daniel Patrick Moynihan
# Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Daniel Patrick Moynihan (16 de março de 1927 - 26 de março de 2003) foi um senador, embaixador, funcionário da administração e acadêmico dos EUA por quatro mandatos.
       - The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace.
          - Family and Nation, cap. 1 (1986)
       - 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.
          - Family and Nation, cap. 3 (1986)
       - The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
          - Memorando datado de março de 2003' em Steven Weisman ed., "Daniel Patrick Moynihan: Um retrato em cartas de um visionário americano"