42 Quotes by Mario M. Cuomo

There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.

I have no plans, and no plans to plan.

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.

In this life, you should read everything you can read. Taste everything you can taste. Meet everyone you can meet. Travel everywhere you can travel. Learn everything you can learn. Experience everything you can experience.

A judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail.

The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now – aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit.

Please make this nation remember how futures are built.

People asked me what I want as an epitaph: ‘He tried’