Mario Cuomo Quotes

•  There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.

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• Dog eat dog produces, inevitably, just one dog.

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• Ever since the Republican landslide on Nov 8, it’s been getting dark outside a little earlier every day. You notice that ?

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• Commitment seems to live more in the poetry of our aspirations than in the prose of the realities we have created.

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• It is as if Homer not only chronicled the siege of Troy, but conducted the siege as well. As if Shakespeare set his play writing aside to lead the English against the Armada.

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• President Bush…seems to think that the ship [of state] will be saved by imperceptible undercurrents, directed by the invisible hand of some cyclical economic god, that will gradually move the ship so that at the last moment it will miraculously glide past the rocks to safer shores.

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• If there’s a plastic surgeon who claims to be responsible for this face, then New York State will decertify him immediately.

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• We propose it, we massage it, and we often have to ram it.

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• You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?

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• You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

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• We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we’ll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.

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• There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

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• The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.

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• The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.

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• If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.

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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 said I didn’t want to run for president. I didn’t ask you to believe me.

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• I have no plans, and no plans to plan.

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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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• Every time I’ve done something that doesn’t feel right, it’s ended up not being right.

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Birth:	15th June, 1932
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Governor

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