Mario Cuomo
Mario Cuomo
Mario Matthew Cuomowas an American Democratic politician. He served as the 52nd Governor of New York for three terms, from 1983 to 1995, Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1979 to 1983; and Secretary of State of New York from 1975 to 1979...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth15 June 1932
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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You have these people who don't like the government they're supposed to be running,
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It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided.
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We believe in only the government we need, but we insist on all the government we need.
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We believe in encouraging the talented, but we believe that while survival of the fittest may be a good working description of the process of evolution, a government of humans should elevate itself to a higher order.
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Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.
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We believe in a government that is characterized by fairness and reasonableness, a reasonableness that goes beyond labels, that doesn't distort or promise to do things that we know we can't do.
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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.
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In 1982, I wrote in my diary that life is motion, not joy. If the way you measure success in life is by how much joy it brings you, you're measuring inaccurately. Life is also sadness, defeat, striving. It is many things.
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In 1980, in 1984, millions of middle-class Democrats became Reagan Democrats, and more of them drifted toward the Republicans with Bush in 1988.
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In 1962, President Kennedy succeeded in captivating Americans by explaining the advantages of being the first country to reach the moon and the dangers of allowing another nation to beat us there.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised.