Quotes from Mario Cuomo

I am one who believes that the world goes from the slime to the sublime. And you can take Darwin and all your philosophers and all your ontologists, and that's the direction.

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.

I went to electric razors so I would not have to look at myself in the morning.

David Robinson chose to stay at Navy. He talked about commitment, loyalty and values. I wonder how many of us would choose these virtues rather than the chance of becoming a millionaire, especially if you were a college sophomore when you had to make that choice.

We are disgusted by the things that we desire, and we desire what disgusts us.

We campaign in poetry. But when we're elected we're forced to govern in prose.

I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.

Please make this nation remember how futures are built

The difference between Democrats and Republicans has always been measured in courage and confidence. The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind by the side of the trail... We democrats believe that we can make it all the new way with the whole family intact

We must make the American people hear our Tale of Two Cities. We must convince them that we don't have to settle for two cities, that we can have one city, indivisible, shining for all of its people.