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The first good player I watched as a kid was Joe DiMaggio, and that was like ballet. Since then, I played sandlot and college ball and came to understand how difficult it can be. -- Mario Cuomo
Barack Obama is probably one of the brightest in terms of sheer intelligence ... also probably the best orator we've ever had as a president. -- Mario Cuomo
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. -- Mario Cuomo
I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit. -- Mario Cuomo
I guess a psychiatrist would say there's some good to the venting process, but it does also promote an attitude of saying, 'Hey there's nothing wrong with being filled with hate; there's so much of it around.' I don't like that. -- Mario Cuomo
I think it's already apparent that a good part of this Nation understands - if only instinctively - that anything which seems to suggest that God favors a political party or the establishment of a state church, is wrong and dangerous. -- Mario Cuomo
In 1984, I gave a speech at Notre Dame titled 'Religious Belief and Public Morality.' I said that Catholic legislators will live by the laws of the church because we want to stay in the club. -- Mario Cuomo
I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised. -- Mario Cuomo
There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory. -- Mario Cuomo
The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law. -- Mario Cuomo
We Democrats still have a dream. We still believe in this nation's future. -- Mario Cuomo
The Mafia is a question every time an Italian raises his head. -- Mario Cuomo
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. -- Mario Cuomo
If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly. -- Mario Cuomo
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. -- Mario Cuomo
There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying. -- Mario Cuomo
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. -- Mario Cuomo
People like Pete Peterson, the former secretary of commerce and Blackstone and titan of Wall Street, etc., has been writing books for years about the debt and deficit. -- Mario Cuomo
I am one who believes that the world goes from the slime to the sublime. And you can take Darwin and all your philosophers and all your ontologists, and that's the direction. -- Mario Cuomo
Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right. -- Mario Cuomo
The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman. -- Mario Cuomo
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. -- Mario Cuomo
There are only two rules for being successful: one, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it. -- Mario Cuomo
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? -- Mario Cuomo
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. -- Mario Cuomo
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. -- Mario Cuomo
Most of us have achieved levels of affluence and comfort unthought of two generations ago. We've never had it so good, most of us. Nor have we ever complained so bitterly about our problems. -- Mario Cuomo
The truth is the justice system does need review, there are troubling questions that need to be answered, law enforcement needs to respect the community and the community needs to respect law enforcement. -- Mario Cuomo
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.' -- Mario Cuomo
9/11 occurs, and you're going to rebuild, and after awhile, the memory will be there, but there will be something new there, and different, and functioning, and electric. -- Mario Cuomo
I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me. -- Mario Cuomo
We believe in only the government we need, but we insist on all the government we need. -- Mario Cuomo
We believe in a government strong enough to use words like "love" and "compassion" and smart enough to convert our noblest aspirations into practical realities. -- Mario Cuomo
The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind. -- Mario Cuomo
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. -- Mario Cuomo
You will not be able to tell that they are capable of greatness until you provide them with a packed house, a 3-and-2 count and the game is on the line. -- Mario Cuomo
I had not even thought of running for president until one day in 1991, at a small fund-raiser, completely unanticipated, someone stood up and said, 'Hey, Mario, in all the years we've supported you, we've never heard you talk about the presidency, and we want to know why not.' -- Mario Cuomo
My favorite thought about Abraham Lincoln is he believed in two things: loving one another and working together to make this world better. -- Mario Cuomo
Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty. -- Mario Cuomo
I love bunt plays. I love the idea of the bunt. I love the idea of the sacrifice. Even the word is good. Giving yourself up for the good of the whole. -- Mario Cuomo
We believe in encouraging the talented, but we believe that while survival of the fittest may be a good working description of the process of evolution, a government of humans should elevate itself to a higher order. -- Mario Cuomo
I wish I were as good a man as my son is. -- Mario Cuomo
Those two principles: We're supposed to love one another and we're supposed to work together to make the experience better. That's all the religion you need, really, to make a success of this planet ... -- Mario Cuomo
Lincoln had bad press, too. He wasn't appreciated until after he was gone. -- Mario Cuomo
We are disgusted by the things that we desire, and we desire what disgusts us. -- Mario Cuomo
I went to electric razors so I would not have to look at myself in the morning. -- Mario Cuomo
Bill Clinton has done more to help the middle class than any leader in decades. -- Mario Cuomo
I somehow got this reputation of diddling and dithering. I don't remember dithering at all. -- Mario Cuomo
What I didn't do was pick one thing and keep saying it over and over again, so I could have gotten credit for it. -- Mario Cuomo
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. -- Mario Cuomo
Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights. -- Mario Cuomo
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. -- Mario Cuomo
Please make this nation remember how futures are built -- Mario Cuomo
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. -- Mario Cuomo
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. -- Mario Cuomo
The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us. -- Mario Cuomo
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. -- Mario Cuomo
Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair. -- Mario Cuomo
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. -- Mario Cuomo
Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful? -- Mario Cuomo
Tax should be the same for everybody. -- Mario Cuomo
The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit. -- Mario Cuomo
My parents were immigrants. -- Mario Cuomo
I have no plans, and no plans to plan. -- Mario Cuomo
California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there. -- Mario Cuomo
People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried' -- Mario Cuomo
Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government. -- Mario Cuomo
I will take a draft to the Yankees or to the Mets. A draft for president is not conceivable. -- Mario Cuomo
You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? -- Mario Cuomo
If I want to run for president, you'll be able to tell. -- Mario Cuomo
I concentrated on a lot of things, so very few people saw me as an education governor, an infrastructure governor. -- Mario Cuomo
I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years. -- Mario Cuomo
In 1980, in 1984, millions of middle-class Democrats became Reagan Democrats, and more of them drifted toward the Republicans with Bush in 1988. -- Mario Cuomo
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. -- Mario Cuomo
Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is. -- Mario Cuomo
For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish ... I don't mess with sacred things. -- Mario Cuomo
If I made a mistake in terms of running for president, the mistake was not in refusing to run in '91. -- Mario Cuomo
The Catholic Church did not always teach that life begins at conception. -- Mario Cuomo
The values derived from religious belief will not - and should not - be accepted as part of the public morality unless they are shared by the pluralistic community at large, by consensus. -- Mario Cuomo
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. -- Mario Cuomo
For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation. -- Mario Cuomo
Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs. -- Mario Cuomo
We believe in a government that is characterized by fairness and reasonableness, a reasonableness that goes beyond labels, that doesn't distort or promise to do things that we know we can't do. -- Mario Cuomo
It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided. -- Mario Cuomo
You can't ever make serious progress against terrorism unless you deal with Israel. -- Mario Cuomo
Debates are boring. -- Mario Cuomo
A judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail. -- Mario Cuomo
I don't ever recall having a political argument with Bob Grant. I've known him a long time. I've always liked him. -- Mario Cuomo
Nobody has ever gotten a bigger push than Bill Clinton gave to Obama. -- Mario Cuomo
I have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner. -- Mario Cuomo
Every minute brings a new opportunity. Every minute brings new growth, new experiences. -- Mario Cuomo
There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community. -- Mario Cuomo
The biggest aggravation in the Arab world, the biggest reason for their anger toward us and the creation of those suicide terrorists, is Israel and the difficulty with the Palestinian issue. -- Mario Cuomo
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. -- Mario Cuomo
In '86 or '87, the welfare lists were at the lowest level in 17 years. Why? Because the economy was the best it was in 17 years. There were jobs. -- Mario Cuomo