Daniel Keys Moran Quotes

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

- Daniel Keys Moran

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.

- Daniel Keys Moran

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

- Daniel Keys Moran

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.

- Daniel Keys Moran

I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth.

- Daniel Keys Moran

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

- Daniel Keys Moran

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

- Daniel Keys Moran

The welfare system in the United States is vile.

- Daniel Keys Moran

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

- Daniel Keys Moran

The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it.

- Daniel Keys Moran

If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it.

- Daniel Keys Moran

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

- Daniel Keys Moran

If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.

- Daniel Keys Moran

The universe is not fair and it is never going to be fair.

- Daniel Keys Moran

There are, believe it or not, good politicians.

- Daniel Keys Moran

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

- Daniel Keys Moran

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

- Daniel Keys Moran

Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.

- Daniel Keys Moran

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

- Daniel Keys Moran

Police do not belong in war zones.

- Daniel Keys Moran

Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

- Daniel Keys Moran

There is virtually nothing I wouldn't be willing to do, to try and make sure that children have a fair shake in life.

- Daniel Keys Moran

Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.

- Daniel Keys Moran

It's your body and your life and you have an absolute right to do with it as you choose.

- Daniel Keys Moran

The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power.

- Daniel Keys Moran

To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world.

- Daniel Keys Moran

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

- Daniel Keys Moran

There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

- Daniel Keys Moran