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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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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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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Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 speak for millions of reasoning people fighting to preserve our environment from greed and from stupidity.
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I wish I were as good a man as my son is.
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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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Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.
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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 went to electric razors so I would not have to look at myself in the morning.
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Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.
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You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?
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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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Every minute brings a new opportunity. Every minute brings new growth, new experiences.
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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.'
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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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My parents were immigrants.
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The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law.