American - Politician | June 15, 1932 - January 1, 2015
If I made a mistake in terms of running for president, the mistake was not in refusing to run in '91.
Mario Cuomo
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I had a chance to go on the Supreme Court of the United States, and my whole family was more disappointed in my deciding not to do that than in my deciding not to run for president - much more.
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I had not even thought of running for president until one day in 1991, at a small fund-raiser, completely unanticipated, someone stood up and said, 'Hey, Mario, in all the years we've supported you, we've never heard you talk about the presidency, and we want to know why not.'
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9/11 occurs, and you're going to rebuild, and after awhile, the memory will be there, but there will be something new there, and different, and functioning, and electric.
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The truth is that beginning in the 1970s, the heart of our Democratic party, America's strong striving middle class, began drifting away from us.
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In 1980, in 1984, millions of middle-class Democrats became Reagan Democrats, and more of them drifted toward the Republicans with Bush in 1988.
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Bill Clinton has done more to help the middle class than any leader in decades.
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No one in the modern history of this country, no president, has done more to move toward a balanced budget than has President Bill Clinton.
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Debates are boring.
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Tax should be the same for everybody.
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People like Pete Peterson, the former secretary of commerce and Blackstone and titan of Wall Street, etc., has been writing books for years about the debt and deficit.
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You can't ever make serious progress against terrorism unless you deal with Israel.
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