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Daniel Patrick Moynihan

"If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved."

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"The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States."

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"The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life."

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"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."

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