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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Barack Obama is probably one of the brightest in terms of sheer intelligence... also probably the best orator we've ever had as a president.
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I concentrated on a lot of things, so very few people saw me as an education governor, an infrastructure governor.
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California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there.
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Bill Clinton has done more to help the middle class than any leader in decades.
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I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.
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A lot of my stories about the old days, they're delicious and funny. But every time I recall the early days, it's painful. With every anecdote, it's painful because you're summoning up the terribly, terribly difficult life of my parents. And it's painful because I didn't realize at the time how hard it was for them.
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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.
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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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It seems to me he has everything it takes to make a really great candidate. I'm delighted and pleased we're endorsing him, and I'll do everything I can to help.
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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 said, 'Hey, Mario, in all the years we've supported you, we've never heard you talk about the presidency, and we want to know why not.'
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I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week.
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I don't ever recall having a political argument with Bob Grant. I've known him a long time. I've always liked him.