Mario Cuomo Quotes
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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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You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?
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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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Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.
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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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I have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner.
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Every minute brings a new opportunity. Every minute brings new growth, new experiences.
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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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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've been taking a closer look at these graduates. They are actually taller, stronger, smarter than we were, smart enough maybe to take our mistakes as their messages, to make our weaknesses their lessons, and to make our example - good and not so good - part of their education.
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My parents were immigrants.
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Tax should be the same for everybody.
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Debates are boring.
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There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying.
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If I want to run for president, you'll be able to tell.
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We Democrats still have a dream. We still believe in this nation's future.
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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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I’d say, 'That’s it, Charlie, you’re going to be by yourself for a hundred years.'
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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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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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I have no plans, and no plans to plan.
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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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You can't ever make serious progress against terrorism unless you deal with Israel.
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Lincoln had bad press, too. He wasn't appreciated until after he was gone.