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.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.