Mario Cuomo

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.

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.

If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.

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.

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

I wish I were as good a man as my son is.

In 1962, President Kennedy succeeded in captivating Americans by explaining the advantages of being the first country to reach the moon and the dangers of allowing another nation to beat us there.

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.

Hate sells.

I don't ever recall having a political argument with Bob Grant. I've known him a long time. I've always liked him.

Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.

Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.

I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.

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

My parents were immigrants.

California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there.

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.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised.

I have no plans, and no plans to plan.

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.