Mario Cuomo Quotes
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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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America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the globe came here with little more than the desire to realize themselves.
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I have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner.
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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’d say, 'That’s it, Charlie, you’re going to be by yourself for a hundred years.'
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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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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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If I want to run for president, you'll be able to tell.
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I have no plans, and no plans to plan.
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There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.
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If he had told the voters in 1980 that truth, would American voters have signed the loan certificate for him on Election Day? Of course not! That was an election won under false pretenses. It was won with smoke and mirrors and illusions. And that's the kind of recovery we have now as well.
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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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Lincoln had bad press, too. He wasn't appreciated until after he was gone.
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When you’ve parked the second car in the garage, and installed the hot tub, and skied in Colorado, and wind-surfed in the Caribbean, when you’ve had your first love affair and your second and your third, the question will remain, where does the dream end for me?
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We Democrats still have a dream. We still believe in this nation's future.
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Debates are boring.
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Tax should be the same for everybody.
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I had a chance to go on the Supreme Court of the United States, and my whole family was more disappointed in my deciding not to do that than in my deciding not to run for president - much more.
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The truth is that beginning in the 1970s, the heart of our Democratic party, America's strong striving middle class, began drifting away from us.
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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.
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You can't ever make serious progress against terrorism unless you deal with Israel.
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I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised.
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No one in the modern history of this country, no president, has done more to move toward a balanced budget than has President Bill Clinton.
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Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?