Mario Cuomo Quotes
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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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I concentrated on a lot of things, so very few people saw me as an education governor, an infrastructure governor.
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Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.
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We speak for millions of reasoning people fighting to preserve our environment from greed and from stupidity.
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Do you blame me, ladies and gentlemen, for being reluctant to deliver to them the message that is traditional on commencement day?
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My favorite thought about Abraham Lincoln is he believed in two things: loving one another and working together to make this world better.
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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.
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I think - something I learned recently looking up the meaning of ideology. If you look in American encyclopedias, it says, you know, 'Rules for - basic rules for a system of economics or politics.' If you look in the Oxford, it says that, and then it says... 'Despite - and people will hold these propositions despite events.'
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I went to electric razors so I would not have to look at myself in the morning.
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Indeed, as I think about it, I have to conclude that these young people before me today are the best reason for hope that this world knows.
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How can we tell our children that - when we have ourselves so often cried out in bitter despair at what we regarded to be the injustice of life - and when we have so often surrendered?
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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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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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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.
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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.
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Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion 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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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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Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.
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I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 - a stockbroker jumped out of a window and crushed him and his pushcart down below.
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The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.
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I wish I were as good a man as my son is.
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You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?
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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.