Mario Cuomo - People Quotes

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

Mario Cuomo
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.

Mario Cuomo
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

Mario Cuomo
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
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 sound good as with speeches that are good and sound; not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that will bring people to their senses.

Mario Cuomo
If this country wanted its Supreme Court to reflect the immediate social or political wishes of the people, it would provide for the election of the Court. And if the Founding Fathers had wanted it that way, they could have said so—or at least hinted at it. They did just the opposite: they designed a system that tried to immunize the Court from the changing moods and passions of the people.

Mario Cuomo