Mario Matthew Cuomo
Delivering a speech, 25 September 2007 - Photo by David Berkowitz
Born: 15 June 1932, Queens, New York
Cuomo's parents emigrated from Salerno, Italy, Mario spoke only Italian until he started school. After P.S. 50 he attended St John's Preparatory School. He stayed on for college, getting his B.A. in 1953, and then a law degree in 1956, tied for first in his class. After clerking for a New York Court of Appeals judge he went into private practice in 1958 and in 1963 started teaching law part time, again at St John's. He made his reputation in land-use cases, defending residents of mostly middle-class neighborhoods from large-scale development. After losing a three-way primary fro lieutenant governor in 1974 he was named secretary of state and expanded the office and mediating in a number of situations. He ran for mayor of New York City in 1977, losing the Democratic primary and stubbornly staying in as the Liberal Party nominee to lose the general. He ran for lieutenant governor again in 1978, when Hugh Carey chose not to run again in 1982, Cuomo stepped up and won the first of three terms as governor. He lost in 1994 and hasn't sought further public office although he has been discussed as a presidential candidate and Bill Clinton offered him a Supreme Court nomination. Since leaving office he has written two books, he continues to practice law, and is an avid fantasy baseball player.
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- Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful? permalink
Mario Cuomo - Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs. permalink
Mario Cuomo - Commencement Address at Iona College (3 June 1984) - Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right. permalink
Mario Cuomo - For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish.... I don't mess with sacred things. permalink
Mario Cuomo - How simple it seems now. We thought the Sermon on the Mount was a nice allegory and nothing more. What we didn't understand until we got to be a little older was that it was the whole answer, the whole truth. That the way — the only way — to succeed and to be happy is to learn those rules so basic that a shepherd's son could teach them to an ignorant flock without notes or formulae. permalink
Mario Cuomo - Commencement Address at Iona College (3 June 1984) - I am a trial lawyer.... Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit. permalink
Mario Cuomo - New York Times (10 November 1986) - I have no plans, and no plans to plan. permalink
Mario Cuomo - New York Times (14 September 1986) - I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or as anything else you choose. permalink
Mario Cuomo - Speech at University of Notre Dame (9 September 1984) - I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me. permalink
Mario Cuomo - New York Times (12 February 1985) - I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week. permalink
Mario Cuomo - Time Magazine (2 June 1986) - I think it's already apparent that a good part of this Nation understands — if only instinctively — that anything which seems to suggest that God favors a political party or the establishment of a state church, is wrong and dangerous. permalink
Mario Cuomo - Speech at University of Notre Dame (9 September 1984) - I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 — a stockbroker jumped out of a window and crushed him and his pushcart down below. permalink
Mario Cuomo - New York Times (14 September 1986) - I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example. permalink
Mario Cuomo - Democratic National Convention Keynote Address (16 July 1984) - 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. permalink
Mario Cuomo - NBC TV (12 August 1986) - In the end, I'm convinced we will all benefit if suspicion is replaced by discussion, innuendo by dialogue; if the emphasis in our debate turns from a search for talismanic criteria and neat but simplistic answers to an honest — more intelligent — attempt at describing the role religion has in our public affairs, and the limits placed on that role. permalink
Mario Cuomo - Speech at University of Notre Dame (9 September 1984)
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