42 Quotes by Mario M. Cuomo

When you’ve parked the second car in the garage, and installed the hot tub, and skied in Colorado, and wind-surfed in the Caribbean, when you’ve had your first love affair and your second and your third, the question will remain, where does the dream end for me?

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

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.

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.

We believe in a government strong enough to use words like “love” and “compassion” and smart enough to convert our noblest aspirations into practical realities.

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

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.

The truth is the justice system does need review, there are troubling questions that need to be answered, law enforcement needs to respect the community and the community needs to respect law enforcement.

Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.