American - Politician | June 15, 1932 - January 1, 2015
You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?
Mario Cuomo
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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 problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law.
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The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has a secular rationale at least as strong as its religious rationale.
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California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there.
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My parents were immigrants.
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The Catholic Church did not always teach that life begins at conception.
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I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.
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Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.
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Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.
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I don't ever recall having a political argument with Bob Grant. I've known him a long time. I've always liked him.
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Hate sells.
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