About Daniel Patrick Moynihan:
Daniel Patrick Moynihan was an American politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the United States Senate for New York in 1976, and was re-elected three times (in 1982, 1988, and 1994). He declined to run for re-election in 2000. Prior to his years in the Senate, Moynihan was the United States' Ambassador to the United Nations and to India, and was a member of four successive presidential administrations, beginning with the administration of John F. Kennedy, and continuing through that of Gerald Ford.
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
Daniel Patrick MoynihanThe liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan