The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.

Quote by Daniel P Moynihan

Topics: America And Americans Quotes, Society Quotes

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed...

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed...

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

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

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

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

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded...

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded...

Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God

Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this...

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this...

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.......

By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.......

New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table...

New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table...

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff...

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff...

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

Lee was such a fine, high-class boy. If my son killed the president he would...

Lee was such a fine, high-class boy. If my son killed the president he would...

My view was that the campaign had been a sacred thing, that it had been...

My view was that the campaign had been a sacred thing, that it had been...

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights...

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights...

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then...

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then...

Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America's newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority...

Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America's newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority...

If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of...

If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of...

When the war closed we were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American system...

When the war closed we were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American system...

A child born to a black mother in a state like Mississippi...has exactly the same...

A child born to a black mother in a state like Mississippi...has exactly the same...

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.