American - Politician | June 15, 1932 - January 1, 2015
I am one who believes that the world goes from the slime to the sublime. And you can take Darwin and all your philosophers and all your ontologists, and that's the direction.
Mario Cuomo
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I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised.
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I will take a draft to the Yankees or to the Mets. A draft for president is not conceivable.
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I guess a psychiatrist would say there's some good to the venting process, but it does also promote an attitude of saying, 'Hey there's nothing wrong with being filled with hate; there's so much of it around.' I don't like that.
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I have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner.
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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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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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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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I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.
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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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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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