Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful? — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
People like Pete Peterson, the former secretary of commerce and Blackstone and titan of Wall Street, etc., has been writing books for… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
I concentrated on a lot of things, so very few people saw me as an education governor, an infrastructure governor. — 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
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in… — 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
We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things.… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
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 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
