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Quotes by Mario Cuomo

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.
– Mario Cuomo
I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.
– Mario Cuomo
I have no plans, and no plans to plan.
– Mario Cuomo
I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.
– Mario Cuomo
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.
– Mario Cuomo
I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 - a stockbroker jumped out of a window and crushed him and his pushcart down below.
– Mario Cuomo
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.
– Mario Cuomo
It was anticipating self-defense.
– Mario Cuomo
Lincoln isn't a man with ingrown toenails, he's an idea.
– Mario Cuomo
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.
– Mario Cuomo
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.
– Mario Cuomo
There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.
– Mario Cuomo
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.
– Mario Cuomo
When you've parked the second car in the garage, and installed the hot tub, and skied in Colorado, and wind-surfed in the Caribbean, when you've had your first love affair and your second and your third, the question will remain, where does the dream end for me?
– Mario Cuomo
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
– Mario Cuomo