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Mario Cuomo Quotes

«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.»
«You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.»
Author: Mario Cuomo | About: Poetry, Prose | Keywords: campaign, prose
«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.»
«I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.»
«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.»
«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.»
«I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.»
«There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.»
Author: Mario Cuomo | About: Politics | Keywords: charging, moderate
«The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us»
Author: Mario Cuomo | About: Belief
«Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.»
Author: Mario Cuomo

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