Moynihan Senator Quotes & Sayings

We're nowhere near democracy. I've been released, that's all. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Even though I occasionally appear on it, I don't watch television. — Josh Radnor

I used to take musical instruments home from elementary school. There were some music teachers there - we all learned instruments. A lot of us got started in public schools. Charlie Parker and Bud Powell, for example. But now there are no more music teachers in public elementary schools. It's like (Senator) Moynihan said, 'benign neglect.' Just let it rot and fester. — Max Roach

This was a voice that drew out memories stretched thin by years of recollection, like paper unfolded and refolded too many times. A voice that brought back, like a wave, the memory of another time on this bridge, a night so long ago, everything black and silver and the river rushing away under her feet ... — Cassandra Clare

You cannot build a complete memory with a single memory tool any more than you can build a complete building with a single carpentry tool. — Kenneth L. Higbee

He would stand backstage and berate himself if he felt he didn't do a good job. It was almost like he couldn't hear how loud everyone was laughing. — Amy Poehler

I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States. — Richard Lugar

They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept. — Trenton Lee Stewart

In the beginning of Roomba, we all took turns answering the support line. Once, a woman called and explained that her robot had a defective motor. I said, 'Send it back. We'll send you a new one.' She said, 'No - I'm not sending you Rosie.' — Colin Angle

Words are so ridiculous sometimes. They don't really mean anything, but they're all I have. — Nyrae Dawn

I'm drawn to intergenerational tension, and it must have been strong in the 1920s: I wondered how Louise's [Brooks] generation of flappers appeared to the women who came of age at the beginning of the century - wearing corsets, long skirts, and high collars. — Laura Moriarty

'Moby-Dick' really threw me. I read it when I was 14 and my best friends were books. It changed the way I looked at the world. — John Burnside

But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger; they make the best fast food hamburgers around. — Thomas Keller

There's a wonderful, perhaps apocryphal story that people tell about Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the brilliant, prickly, and iconoclastic late senator from New York. Apparently, Moynihan was in a heated argument with one of his colleagues over an issue, and the other senator, sensing he was on the losing side of the argument, blurted out: 'Well, you may disagree with me, Pat, I'm entitled to my own opinion." To which Moynihan frostily replied, "You are entitled to you own opinion, but you are not entitled to you own facts. — Barack Obama

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. — George Washington