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Your Quotes for 15 June 2006 - Mario Cuomo

Mario Matthew Cuomo was born at Queens, New York City on this day in 1932, son of an Italian immigrant. He was educated at St John's University (bachelor 1953 and law degree in 1956), played minor league baseball for a Pittsburgh Pirates farm team until he was hit in the head by a ball, after which he practiced law. He made his name in land-use cases in Queens, then entered politics and was governor of New York for twelve years. A liberal Democrat, he was often discussed as a presidential candidate but chose not to run, and turned down a nomination to the US Supreme Court during the Clinton administration.

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

The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.

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

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.

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.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
     - All from Mario Cuomo

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