Mario Cuomo: Quotes about the world

Mario Cuomo was American politician, Governor of New York. Explore interesting quotes on world.
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“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.”

Mario Cuomo

Address at Iona College (1984)

People , World , Hope , Thinking

“You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? … God made this world, but didn't complete it.”

Mario Cuomo

As quoted in "Analysis : Tragedies of nature, terror leave vulnerable feeling" by Charles Passy, in The Palm Beach Post (12 September 2005) http://www.palmbeachpost.com/pbccentral/content/local_news/epaper/2005/09/12/m1a_vulnerability_0912.html

God , Age , World

“Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.”

Mario Cuomo

Address at Iona College (1984)

World , Sport , Wealth

“There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.”

Mario Cuomo

As quoted in The Nastiest Things Ever Said about Republicans (2006) by Martin Higgins, p. 131

World

“How do we tell them that one not be discouraged by the imperfection of the world and the inevitability of death and diminishment. How do we tell them when they lose a child, or are crippled, or know that they will themselves die too soon — that God permits pain and sickness and unfairness and evil to exist, only in order to permit us to test our mettle and to earn a fulfillment that would otherwise not be possible?”

Mario Cuomo

Address at Iona College (1984)

Death , God , Pain , World

“We believe as Democrats, that a society as blessed as ours, the most affluent democracy in the world's history, one that can spend trillions on instruments of destruction, ought to be able to help the middle class in its struggle, ought to be able to find work for all who can do it, room at the table, shelter for the homeless, care for the elderly and infirm, and hope for the destitute. And we proclaim as loudly as we can the utter insanity of nuclear proliferation and the need for a nuclear freeze, if only to affirm the simple truth that peace is better than war because life is better than death.”

Mario Cuomo

Democratic National Convention Address (1984)

Life , Death , War , Truth