Mario Cuomo Quotations

I don't ever recall having a political argument with Bob Grant. I've known him a long time. I've always liked him.

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

California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there.

Bill Clinton has done more to help the middle class than any leader in decades.

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.

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 am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.

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.

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.

For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.