Top 71 Quotes by Mario Cuomo

No one in the modern history of this country, no president, has done more to move toward a balanced budget than has President Bill Clinton.

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.

There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying.

The Mafia is a question every time an Italian raises his head.

The Catholic Church did not always teach that life begins at conception.

People like Pete Peterson, the former secretary of commerce and Blackstone and titan of Wall Street, etc., has been writing books for years about the debt and deficit.

I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.

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

The first good player I watched as a kid was Joe DiMaggio, and that was like ballet. Since then, I played sandlot and college ball and came to understand how difficult it can be.

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.