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Former Governor Of New York Inspirational Quotes (186)

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It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.
William H. Seward
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Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.
Mario Cuomo
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All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
Al Smith
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We believe in only the government we need, but we insist on all the government we need.
Mario Cuomo
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I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system.
Eliot Spitzer
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Mitt Romney's primary season embrace of the social and economic agenda of the more rabid elements of his party doomed him, especially the shrill immigration rhetoric and the harshly insensitive theory that no additional sacrifice or contribution should be sought from those at the top.
Eliot Spitzer
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You can't run a government solely on a business basis...Government should be human. It should have a heart.
Herbert H. Lehman
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But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
William H. Seward
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I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.
Herbert H. Lehman
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We are one America. If we work together across party lines, there's no problem we can't solve and the 21st century will be America's greatest century.
George Pataki
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The Constitution is what the judges say it is.
Charles Evans Hughes
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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.
Mario Cuomo
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It's a Little Leaguers game that major leaguers play extraordinarily well, a game that excites us throughout adulthood. The crack of the bat and the scent of the horsehide on leather bring back our own memories that have been washed away with the sweat and tears of summers long gone...even as the setting sun pushes the shadows past home plate.
Mario Cuomo
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I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.
Mario Cuomo
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It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.
Al Smith
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We need a President that all Americans can respect, not a celebrity who uses words like freedom and liberty like they are a punchline in a reality show.
George Pataki
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Those who are critical of Alliance are the same people who have done nothing for 30 years.
Eliot Spitzer
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But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act.
George Pataki
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I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.
Eliot Spitzer
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Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.
Eliot Spitzer
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Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.
William H. Seward
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It's not Big Brother that we now have to be afraid of, but Big Browser.
Eliot Spitzer
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Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.
George Pataki
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For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.
Mario Cuomo
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