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I don't ever recall having a political argument with Bob Grant. I've known him a long time. I've always liked him.

You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?

Mario Cuomo

California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there.

Mario Cuomo

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

Mario Cuomo

I don't ever recall having a political argument with Bob Grant. I've known him a long time. I've always liked him.

Mario Cuomo

The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law.

Mario Cuomo

I concentrated on a lot of things, so very few people saw me as an education governor, an infrastructure governor.

Mario Cuomo

The beauty of America is that I don't have to deny my past to affirm my present. No one does. We can love this nation like a parent and still embrace our ancestral home like cherished grandparents.

Mario Cuomo

I love bunt plays. I love the idea of the bunt. I love the idea of the sacrifice. Even the word is good. Giving yourself up for the good of the whole.

Mario Cuomo

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.

Mario Cuomo

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week.

Mario Cuomo

I will take a draft to the Yankees or to the Mets. A draft for president is not conceivable.

Mario Cuomo

You can't ever make serious progress against terrorism unless you deal with Israel.

Mario Cuomo

The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.

Mario Cuomo

If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.

Mario Cuomo

I have no plans, and no plans to plan.

Mario Cuomo

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

Mario Cuomo

I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.

Mario Cuomo

Every minute brings a new opportunity. Every minute brings new growth, new experiences.

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The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.

Mario Cuomo

I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.

Mario Cuomo

I am one who believes that the world goes from the slime to the sublime. And you can take Darwin and all your philosophers and all your ontologists, and that's the direction.

Mario Cuomo

Tax should be the same for everybody.

Mario Cuomo

In this life, you should read everything you can read. Taste everything you can taste. Meet everyone you can meet. Travel everywhere you can travel. Learn everything you can learn. Experience everything you can experience.

Mario Cuomo

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

Mario Cuomo

There is no basis to say I'm being coy about running for president. If I chose to explore the presidency, I wouldn't do it in a backward way. I'll say, 'I'm exploring the presidency.'

Mario Cuomo

I have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner.

Mario Cuomo

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

Mario Cuomo

Barack Obama is probably one of the brightest in terms of sheer intelligence... also probably the best orator we've ever had as a president.

Mario Cuomo

I'm not better than other politicians, but I'm different because I got into the game much later in life, after I had raised a family, after I had written a book, after I had been a successful lawyer. It's different when you get into this business after you've led a full life. I don't want to be a big man. I know who I am.

Mario Cuomo

The truth is that beginning in the 1970s, the heart of our Democratic party, America's strong striving middle class, began drifting away from us.

Mario Cuomo

In 1984, I gave a speech at Notre Dame titled 'Religious Belief and Public Morality.' I said that Catholic legislators will live by the laws of the church because we want to stay in the club.

Mario Cuomo

I guess a psychiatrist would say there's some good to the venting process, but it does also promote an attitude of saying, 'Hey there's nothing wrong with being filled with hate; there's so much of it around.' I don't like that.

Mario Cuomo

The biggest aggravation in the Arab world, the biggest reason for their anger toward us and the creation of those suicide terrorists, is Israel and the difficulty with the Palestinian issue.

Mario Cuomo

The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has a secular rationale at least as strong as its religious rationale.

Mario Cuomo

There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying.

Mario Cuomo

I did once answer the question 'What would you say on your tombstone?' I know what I would say: 'Mario Cuomo, 1932 - dash,' and, 'He tried.' That's it.

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