Top 71 Quotes by Mario Cuomo

There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community.

I am one who believes that the world goes from the slime to the sublime. And you can take Darwin and all your philosophers and all your ontologists, and that's the direction.

My favorite thought about Abraham Lincoln is he believed in two things: loving one another and working together to make this world better.

I will take a draft to the Yankees or to the Mets. A draft for president is not conceivable.

I have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week.

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.

I did once answer the question 'What would you say on your tombstone?' I know what I would say: 'Mario Cuomo, 1932 - dash,' and, 'He tried.' That's it.

I love bunt plays. I love the idea of the bunt. I love the idea of the sacrifice. Even the word is good. Giving yourself up for the good of the whole.