Mario Cuomo: Quotes about people

Mario Cuomo was American politician, Governor of New York. Explore interesting quotes on people.

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“I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.”

Time Magazine (2 June 1986)

“Indeed, as I think about it, I have to conclude that these young people before me today are the best reason for hope that this world knows.”

Address at Iona College (1984)

“I think it's already apparent that a good part of this Nation understands — if only instinctively — that anything which seems to suggest that God favors a political party or the establishment of a state church, is wrong and dangerous.
Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions — or whole bodies of religious belief — and government. Apart from constitutional law and religious doctrine, there is a sense that tells us it's wrong to presume to speak for God or to claim God's sanction of our particular legislation and His rejection of all other positions. Most of us are offended when we see religion being trivialized by its appearance in political throw-away pamphlets.
The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.”

Religious Belief and Public Morality (1984)

“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.
As quoted in The Quotable Politician (2003) by William B. Whitman, p. 25

“We speak for millions of reasoning people fighting to preserve our environment from greed and from stupidity.”

Democratic National Convention Address (1984)