Mario Cuomo Quotes
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Mario Cuomo Quotes & Sayings
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Every minute brings a new opportunity. Every minute brings new growth, new experiences.
— Mario Cuomo
For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.
— Mario Cuomo
I have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner.
— Mario Cuomo
I somehow got this reputation of diddling and dithering. I don't remember dithering at all.
— Mario Cuomo
I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.
— Mario Cuomo
I wish I were as good a man as my son is.
— Mario Cuomo
The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law.
— Mario Cuomo
At times, Mario Cuomo seemed to have the humility of a Jesuit and the goals of an emperor.
— Mike Barnicle
If I want to run for president, you'll be able to tell.
— Mario Cuomo
Tax should be the same for everybody.
— Mario Cuomo
I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.
— Mario Cuomo
Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.
— Mario Cuomo
You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?
— Mario Cuomo
For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish ... I don't mess with sacred things.
— Mario Cuomo
I will take a draft to the Yankees or to the Mets. A draft for president is not conceivable.
— Mario Cuomo
Please make this nation remember how futures are built
— Mario Cuomo
If I made a mistake in terms of running for president, the mistake was not in refusing to run in '91.
— Mario Cuomo
Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.
— Mario Cuomo
What I didn't do was pick one thing and keep saying it over and over again, so I could have gotten credit for it.
— Mario Cuomo
We believe in only the government we need, but we insist on all the government we need.
— Mario Cuomo
Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?
— Mario Cuomo
People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'
— Mario Cuomo
It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing.
— William J. Clinton
I concentrated on a lot of things, so very few people saw me as an education governor, an infrastructure governor.
— Mario Cuomo
My parents were immigrants.
— 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
California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there.
— Mario Cuomo
I have no plans, and no plans to plan.
— Mario Cuomo
The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.
— Mario Cuomo
It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided.
— Mario Cuomo
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
— Mario Cuomo
There are only two rules for being successful: one, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
— Mario Cuomo
Debates are boring.
— Mario Cuomo