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Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.

Andrew Cuomo

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Andrew Cuomo
Age: 66
Born: 1957
Born: December 6
Governor Of New York
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Queens
New York
Andrew Mark Cuomo
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