Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
We believe in only the government we need, but we insist on all the government we need. — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
A shining city is perhaps all the president sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch,… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The truth is the justice system does need review, there are troubling questions that need to be answered, law enforcement needs to… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
I have heard the critics. What they are spewing are lies, nothing more. My defense policy calls for an efficient and strong… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the globe came… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
The biggest aggravation in the Arab world, the biggest reason for their anger toward us and the creation of those suicide terrorists, is Israel… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided. — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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,… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
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… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or as anything… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
