Mario Cuomo

California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there.

— Mario Cuomo

My favorite thought about Abraham Lincoln is he believed in two things: loving one another and working together to make this world…

— Mario Cuomo

I did once answer the question 'What would you say on your tombstone?' I know what I would say: 'Mario Cuomo, 1932…

— Mario Cuomo

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

— Mario Cuomo

The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless…

— 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…

— Mario Cuomo

I am one who believes that the world goes from the slime to the sublime. And you can take Darwin and all…

— Mario Cuomo

The first good player I watched as a kid was Joe DiMaggio, and that was like ballet. Since then, I played sandlot…

— 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…

— Mario Cuomo

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made…

— 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,…

— Mario Cuomo

Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief…

— Mario Cuomo

In 1982, I wrote in my diary that life is motion, not joy. If the way you measure success in life is…

— Mario Cuomo

America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the…

— Mario Cuomo

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things.…

— Mario Cuomo

Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling…

— Mario Cuomo

I had a chance to go on the Supreme Court of the United States, and my whole family was more disappointed in…

— Mario Cuomo

In this life, you should read everything you can read. Taste everything you can taste. Meet everyone you can meet. Travel everywhere…

— Mario Cuomo

The truth is the justice system does need review, there are troubling questions that need to be answered, law enforcement needs to…

— Mario Cuomo

In 1962, President Kennedy succeeded in captivating Americans by explaining the advantages of being the first country to reach the moon and…

— Mario Cuomo

The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has…

— Mario Cuomo

The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back…

— 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…

— Mario Cuomo

You will not be able to tell that they are capable of greatness until you provide them with a packed house, a…

— 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…

— Mario Cuomo