Mario Cuomo
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
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
Mario Cuomo

Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?

Mario Cuomo
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
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
Mario Cuomo

Every minute brings a new opportunity. Every minute brings new growth, new experiences.

Mario Cuomo
Mario Cuomo

We Democrats still have a dream. We still believe in this nation's future.

Mario Cuomo
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
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
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
Mario Cuomo

I wish I were as good a man as my son is.

Mario Cuomo
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
Mario Cuomo

The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.

Mario Cuomo
Mario Cuomo

Hate sells.

Mario Cuomo
Mario Cuomo

The Mafia is a question every time an Italian raises his head.

Mario Cuomo
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
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
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
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
Mario Cuomo

I will take a draft to the Yankees or to the Mets. A draft for president is not conceivable.