Mario Cuomo
Mario Cuomo
Mario Matthew Cuomowas an American Democratic politician. He served as the 52nd Governor of New York for three terms, from 1983 to 1995, Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1979 to 1983; and Secretary of State of New York from 1975 to 1979...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth15 June 1932
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community.
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The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law.
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Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.
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I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.
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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.
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I have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner.
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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.
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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.
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If you were Merlin and you had taken a young boy with a fragile build and dipped him into the cauldron of boiling juices from lizards' insides and produced a knight with the biggest, broadest sword ever seen, you wouldn't have a better miracle than Giuliani produced by 9-11,
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I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised.
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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.
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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.
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In 1980, in 1984, millions of middle-class Democrats became Reagan Democrats, and more of them drifted toward the Republicans with Bush in 1988.
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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.