Daniel Patrick Moynihan citations

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, né le 16 mars 1927 à Tulsa et mort le 26 mars 2003 à Washington D.C., est un sociologue et homme politique américain. Membre du Parti démocrate, il est sénateur pour l'État de New York au Congrès de 1977 à 2001. Il a aussi été ambassadeur des États-Unis auprès de l'Organisation des Nations unies entre 1975 et 1976 et de l'Inde de 1973 à 1975. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. mars 1927 – 26. mars 2003
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan: Citations en anglais

“The mudslinging has begun.”

Response to James L. Buckley addressing him as Professor Moynihan in a televised debate. ( Query.nytimes.com http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A06E7DF1439F933A05750C0A9659C8B63)

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

Quoted in Robert Sobel's review of Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies edited by Mark C. Carnes.
Quoted in Timothy J. Penny, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/207925/facts-are-facts-timothy-j-penny, National Review September 4, 2003.
Ellen Hume, Tabloids, Talk Radio and the Future of News, part 4 http://www.ellenhume.com/articles/tabloids4.html ( TOC http://www.ellenhume.com/articles/tabloids_contents.html), 1995 cites this as something Moynihan said to a "1994 electoral opponent on WNBC in New York".
However, proceedings http://web.archive.org/web/20141031220947/http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/pdfs/96id_protection.pdf of a Senate Intelligence Committee in 1980 attribute the identical quote to James R. Schlesinger (at p. 110), possibly made during the course of 1973 Congressional testimony.
Also see Bernard Baruch, who said "Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts." in the January 6, 1950 issue of the Deming (New Mexico) Headlight
See also this Barry Popik blog http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/everyone_is_entitled_to_his_own_opinion_but_not_his_own_facts for some etymological research into this quote and its variants.
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Variante: Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts.
Variante: You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.
Variante: You’re entitled to your own opinions. You’re not entitled to your own facts.

“What is not discussed, will not be advanced.”

Quoted by Ralph Nader in a September 22, 2011 televised interview by CNN, in reference to issues and politics.
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