Quotes from Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.

As the family goes, so go the children.

I was in charge of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So I had some of the most brilliant mathematical statistical minds in the country, who would put together the modern technology, if you like, of understanding the economy and tracking it and trying to influence it.

Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.

The richest inheritance any child can have is a stable, loving, disciplined family life.

The principal challenge of the next phase of the Negro revolution is to make certain that equality of results will now follow. If we do not, there will be no social peace in the United States for generations.

We used to play marbles for keeps. If you lost, you lost. It is the same way with politics, but not everybody knows this.

In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.