Patrick Moynihan

I insist that republican be with a small ``r,'' and at the time when Thomas Jefferson assumed to run the democratic Republican Party. But we will not get into that detail. I would simply indicate that it would be my disposition, absent any…

May I thank the Senator from Colorado for offering this amendment which appears to this Senator, and I believe to most Senators on either side of the aisle, as appropriate, and necessary because there are principles involved. I am sure the…

It seems to me, precisely that. By constitutional proviso the Congress guarantees to the States a republican form of government. I am not sure whether this would fall under that admonition or injunction.

May I express particular personal thanks to the Senator from California for her generosity in her remarks, and to make the case--just comment--that in the aftermath of the Family Support Act, we had considerable successes in places such as…

If I may put it in question form. He might know that in the summer of 1992, President Bush visited Riverside and was making a point that it seemed to be working and is catching on. I rushed to the floor with a photograph of President…

I know he would be aware, he is speaking so well, so feelingly and wisely, that in 1992 the number of children born to unmarried women was 1,224,876 souls, one and a quarter million children in 1 year.

Because he is making an important point. Does he recall the occasion on which the Committee on Finance--of course he recalls-- held a retreat in Maryland, and the Senator from North Dakota learned about the proposal to deny welfare…

Yesterday's Buffalo News reported the forthcoming retirement of Buffalo, NY, Common Council President George K. Arthur, after four decades of public service. Mr. Arthur, who has been Common Council President since 1983, is a distinguished…

The decision to drop the expatriation tax provision from the final conference version of the bill has been the subject of much debate over the last week. I certainly don't presume to speak for the other conferees. But for myself I repeat…

For a quarter century I have been involved with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. I was a member of its first board of trustees in 1969, and served as vice chairman from 1971 to 1976. During the center's existence, five…

I rise today to continue my weekly practice of reporting to the Senate on the death toll by gunshot in New York City. Last week, 6 people lost their lives to bullet wounds in New York City, bringing this year's total to 27.

In the end, the great issues presented here are civic, not economic. Do Puerto Ricans wish to become Americans? Because that is what statehood ineluctably implies. Or do they wish to preserve a separate identity?

In the end the great issues here presented are civic, not economic. Do Puerto Ricans want to become Americans? Because that is what statehood inevitably means.