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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A lot of my stories about the old days, they're delicious and funny. But every time I recall the early days, it's painful. With every anecdote, it's painful because you're summoning up the terribly, terribly difficult life of my parents. And it's painful because I didn't realize at the time how hard it was for them.
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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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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.
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The Catholic Church did not always teach that life begins at conception.
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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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There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying.
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I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.
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Lincoln isn't a man with ingrown toenails, he's an idea.
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Lincoln had bad press, too. He wasn't appreciated until after he was gone.
I will take a draft to the Yankees or to the Mets. A draft for president is not conceivable.
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I wish I were as good a man as my son is.
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The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law.
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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.
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Yeah. Just think, if I had been there the speeches would have gone on even longer. Maybe two hours!