Mario Cuomo People Quotations

People like Pete Peterson, the former secretary of commerce and Blackstone and titan of Wall Street, etc., has been writing books for years about the debt and deficit.

I concentrated on a lot of things, so very few people saw me as an education governor, an infrastructure governor.

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.

I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.

I think - something I learned recently looking up the meaning of ideology. If you look in American encyclopedias, it says, you know, 'Rules for - basic rules for a system of economics or politics.' If you look in the Oxford, it says that, and then it says... 'Despite - and people will hold these propositions despite events.'

I have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner.

A shining city is perhaps all the president sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But there's another part to the shining city. In this part of the city there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, more and more people who need help but can't find it.

People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'

Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?

People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.

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

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

You have these people who don't like the government they're supposed to be running,

Scott Stringer has a record of standing up to special interests and getting results for the people of Manhattan. I know a real reformer when I see one and Scott Stringer is the real deal.