Patrick Moynihan
Patrick Moynihan
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.
issues race benefits
The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.
mean evil politics
One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist... What those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. The absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state.
people important information
Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.
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.
status-quo
The status quo is working.
war different borders
The nature of the new world system was not so different from the old. It was for the moment more stable, but a reasonable forecast would be that Africa in particular had a century of border wars ahead of it.
breakup russia ukraine
The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to continue under a regime dominated by Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia came apart also, beginning with a brutal clash between Serbia and Croatia, here again 'nations' with only the smallest differences in genealogy; with, indeed, practically a common language. Ethnic conflict does not require great differences; small will do.
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.
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.
atmosphere politics social
The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.
stubborn complaining proposal
Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'
change society culture
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.