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“... Before he became Senator for New York, Daniel PatrickMoynihan was an academic and the author, with Nathan Glazer, of Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City, published in 1963. Moynihan’s chief contribution was the chapter on the New York Irish, a lament which begins: ‘New York used to be an Irish city ...”

“... His low priority for the value of freedom marks him off sharply from a politician like Senator Pat Moynihan, who is precisely the sort of right-wing liberal – attached to human rights, to Enlightenment notions of social contract, to restriction of state power – whom Mr Scruton wants to evict from the conservative definition. This is a collection of essays ...”

“... be unemployed, because working families too were receiving welfare.’ Though some liberals, like Daniel PatrickMoynihan, derided such sweeping assertions, Murray’s thesis appealed both to common sense and to prejudice. It justified cuts in welfare spending and reductions in taxes and in state intervention. It also ...”

“... the Austro-Hungarians and the Turks. Even so, Evelyn Waugh’s famous observation, cited here by Daniel Moynihan, applies to them all: ‘the foundations of empire are often occasions of woe; their dismemberment always.’ ‘There was nothing,’ Bremner writes, ‘in Marx’s model of successive social formations that pointed to nationalism as a ...”

“... is a sentiment that has been shared by many UN observers, particularly Americans such as Senator Daniel PatrickMoynihan of New York in his book about the UN called A Dangerous Place, which followed his short but stormy tenure of the post of US Ambassador there. His sense of outrage was aroused by the lopsided ...”

“... for unsafe design. Moving to Washington in 1963, he took a job as a part-time consultant for Daniel PatrickMoynihan, the assistant secretary of labour, who assigned him to prepare a report on car safety. The result was Unsafe at Any Speed (1965), a compound of eye-glazing charts, moral vitriol and wrenching ...”

“... dissident Michael Voslensky. In the United States in the 1960s, neoconservatives, most notably Daniel PatrickMoynihan, recycled the phrase ‘the New Class’ to refer to parasitic public sector bureaucrats who were making the US ‘a society of public affluence and private squalor’. With Khrushchev in ...”

“... and the Hungarians fought back. Wisner’s hope of co-ordinating a policy with SIS was dashed when Patrick Dean, head of the CIA/MI6 Joint Intelligence Committee, failed to appear at a meeting and sent no explanation. Only later did Wisner learn that Dean was in France laying plans to invade Egypt, depose President Nasser and return the Suez Canal to ...”

“... match the sanity of Wilkinson and Townshend. Edwin Meese III sees the danger of over-reaction, and Daniel PatrickMoynihan stresses the importance of governments observing the law – ‘lest terrorists win by inducing a kind of bunker terrorism’. John O’Sullivan emphasises the need to deny them publicity. In the ...”

“... bill which removes perhaps some millions of American children from the welfare rolls. Even Senator Daniel PatrickMoynihan, who first opened the argument about the cultural pathology of poverty when he was working for the Nixon Administration, has professed himself appalled at the callousness and want of discrimination ...”