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Mario Cuomo
American
Politician
Born:
Jun 15
,
1932
Died:
Jan 1
,
2015
Good
Life
People
Time
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You
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If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.
Mario Cuomo
News
You
Judge
Law
Smart
Lawyer
Reputation
Thief
Ruin
Killer
Out
Could
Accountant
Reporter
Unfairly
Jail
Manipulate
Taxes
Your
Paying
Keep
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 will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.
Mario Cuomo
Reality
People
Will
Past
Must
Feet
Glitter
Beyond
Look
Get
American
Substance
Senses
Public
Much
American Public
Hard
Showmanship
Things
Bring
Speeches
I have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner.
Mario Cuomo
Me
People
Seeing
Quarrel
Sinner
I think - something I learned recently looking up the meaning of ideology. If you look in American encyclopedias, it says, you know, 'Rules for - basic rules for a system of economics or politics.' If you look in the Oxford, it says that, and then it says... 'Despite - and people will hold these propositions despite events.'
Mario Cuomo
Politics
You
People
Events
Will
Economics
Looking
Ideology
Think
Despite
Rules
Says
System
Something
Know
Look
Learned
Up
American
Oxford
Hold
Meaning
Meaning Of
Then
Basic
Recently
The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.
Mario Cuomo
Time
Police
Long
Long Time
Before
Back
Police Officer
Arrested
Person
Officer
May
Mugged
Who
Ever
Street
There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community.
Mario Cuomo
Casino
Thought
Community
State
Respectable
Economic
Economically
Holds
Body
Gambling
Actually
The Mafia is a question every time an Italian raises his head.
Mario Cuomo
Time
Every
Every Time
Mafia
Head
His
Italian
Question
Raises
I love bunt plays. I love the idea of the bunt. I love the idea of the sacrifice. Even the word is good. Giving yourself up for the good of the whole.
Mario Cuomo
Love
Good
Yourself
Word
Giving
Sacrifice
Idea
Up
Bunt
Whole
Even
Plays
Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.
Mario Cuomo
Time
Every
Every Time
Something
Feel
Up
Ended
Done
Being
Right
I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.
Mario Cuomo
Me
You
Believe
President
Run
Said
Want
Ask
I have no plans, and no plans to plan.
Mario Cuomo
Future
Plan
Plans
I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.
Mario Cuomo
Good
Day
Good Day
Dinner
Lawyer
Trial
Trial Lawyer
Says
Like
Sound
Am
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
Politics
World
Few
Charging
More
Pursuit
Greater
Glory
Than
Moderate
Few Things
Republicans
Right
Things
Watching
Amusing
You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?
Mario Cuomo
You
Age
Calamities
About
Want
Ice
Ice Age
The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.
Mario Cuomo
Others
Our
Seeking
Someday
Price
Force
Might
Us
Beliefs
The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law.
Mario Cuomo
You
Problem
Law
Matter
Church
All Americans
Impose
American
Teachings
California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there.
Mario Cuomo
Wonderful
State
Kind
California
Sort
Unusual
Happen
Electric
Things
Things Happen
My parents were immigrants.
Mario Cuomo
Parents
Immigrants
Were
I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.
Mario Cuomo
Death
People
State
Penalty
Badly
New
Death Penalty
Years
York
New York
Being
New York State
Against
Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.
Mario Cuomo
Religion
Democracy
Rights
Important
Extremely
Prime
Occupies
Bill
Bill Of Rights
Position
Hate sells.
Mario Cuomo
Hate
Sells
There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying.
Mario Cuomo
Ugly
Worrying
About
Something
Rhetorical
Violence
In '86 or '87, the welfare lists were at the lowest level in 17 years. Why? Because the economy was the best it was in 17 years. There were jobs.
Mario Cuomo
Best
Welfare
Jobs
Economy
Because
Were
Years
Lists
Lowest
Why
Level
In 1962, President Kennedy succeeded in captivating Americans by explaining the advantages of being the first country to reach the moon and the dangers of allowing another nation to beat us there.
Mario Cuomo
Moon
First
Country
Nation
President
President Kennedy
Dangers
Beat
Allowing
Advantages
Reach
Another
American
Being
Explaining
Succeeded
Us
Captivating
Kennedy
I wish I were as good a man as my son is.
Mario Cuomo
Good
Man
Son
Wish
Were
Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?
Mario Cuomo
You
People
Achieve
Exactly
Exactly What
Powerful
Want
Decide
Help
Help People
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