Mario Cuomo Quotes
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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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It was anticipating self-defense.
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There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying.
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The beauty of America is that I don't have to deny my past to affirm my present. No one does. We can love this nation like a parent and still embrace our ancestral home like cherished grandparents.
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Do we have the right now to tell them that when Saint Francis begged the Lord to teach him to want to console instead of seeking to be consoled - to teach him to want to love instead of desiring to be loved - that he was really being selfish? Because he knew the only way to be fulfilled and pleased and happy was to give instead of trying to get.
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I don't ever recall having a political argument with Bob Grant. I've known him a long time. I've always liked him.
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Debates are boring.
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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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People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.
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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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Sometimes comforting the afflicted does require afflicting the comfortable.
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David Robinson chose to stay at Navy. He talked about commitment, loyalty and values. I wonder how many of us would choose these virtues rather than the chance of becoming a millionaire, especially if you were a college sophomore when you had to make that choice.
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Nobody has ever gotten a bigger push than Bill Clinton gave to Obama.
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Lincoln isn’t a man with ingrown toenails, he’s an idea.