Mario Cuomo

9/11 occurs, and you're going to rebuild, and after awhile, the memory will be there, but there will be something new there, and different, and functioning, and electric.

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

The beauty of America is that I don't have to deny my past to affirm my present. No one does. We can love this nation like a parent and still embrace our ancestral home like cherished grandparents.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.

I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right by his glove and I laugh.