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Daniel Moynihan: “You are entitled to your own opinions but not entitled to your own facts.”

On the recordJuly 24, 2017
You are entitled to your own opinions but not entitled to your own facts.
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Daniel Moynihan
New York

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Emphasizing the importance of facts in political discourse.

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