Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Overview
Daniel Patrick "Pat" Moynihan (March 16, 1927 March 26, 2003) was an American
United States
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 politician
Politician
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 and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party
Democratic Party (United States)
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, he was first elected to the United States Senate
United States Senate
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 for New York
New York
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 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
United Nations
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 and to India
India
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, and was a member of four successive presidential
President of the United States
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 administrations, beginning with the administration of John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
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, and continuing through that of Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford
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.
Quotations

The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace.

Family and Nation, ch. 1 (1986)

A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its elderly. Just as surely, the future of a society may be forecast by how it cares for its young.

Family and Nation, ch. 3 (1986)

 
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