A biography for Mario Cuomohasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“In 1984, I gave a speech at Notre Dame titled 'Religious Belief and Public Morality.' I said that Catholic legislators will live by the laws of the church because we want to stay in the club.”
“You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?”
“Tax should be the same for everybody.”
“In this life, you should read everything you can read. Taste everything you can taste. Meet everyone you can meet. Travel everywhere you can travel. Learn everything you can learn. Experience everything you can experience.”
“You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”
“Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.”
“The biggest aggravation in the Arab world, the biggest reason for their anger toward us and the creation of those suicide terrorists, is Israel and the difficulty with the Palestinian issue.”
“I guess a psychiatrist would say there's some good to the venting process, but it does also promote an attitude of saying, 'Hey there's nothing wrong with being filled with hate; there's so much of it around.' I don't like that.”
“I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.”
“The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has a secular rationale at least as strong as its religious rationale.”
“The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.”
“There are only two rules for being successful: one, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.”
“There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying.”
“I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised.”
“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'm not better than other politicians, but I'm different because I got into the game much later in life, after I had raised a family, after I had written a book, after I had been a successful lawyer. It's different when you get into this business after you've led a full life. I don't want to be a big man. I know who I am.”
“California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there.”
“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.”
“I had a chance to go on the Supreme Court of the United States, and my whole family was more disappointed in my deciding not to do that than in my deciding not to run for president - much more.”