125 Quotes by Mario Cuomo

I had a chance to go on the Supreme Court of the United States, and my whole family was more disappointed in my deciding not to do that than in my deciding not to run for president - much more.

If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law.

If you were Merlin and you had taken a young boy with a fragile build and dipped him into the cauldron of boiling juices from lizards' insides and produced a knight with the biggest, broadest sword ever seen, you wouldn't have a better miracle than Giuliani produced by 9-11,

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.

If I want to run for president, you'll be able to tell.

If I made a mistake in terms of running for president, the mistake was not in refusing to run in '91.

I'd say, "That's it, Charlie, you're going to be by yourself for a hundred years.

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.

For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.