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Most of us have achieved levels of affluence and comfort unthought of two generations ago. We've never had it so good, most of us. Nor have we ever complained so bitterly about our problems.
Mario Cuomo
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Mario Cuomo
Age: 82 †
Born: 1932
Born: June 15
Died: 2015
Died: January 1
Baseball Player
Former Governor Of New York
Lawyer
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Jamaica
Queens
Mario Matthew 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.
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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.
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People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'
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The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.
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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.
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Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.
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For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.
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The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.
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The truth is the justice system does need review, there are troubling questions that need to be answered, law enforcement needs to respect the community and the community needs to respect law enforcement.
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The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind.
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I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.
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I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.
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