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A judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail.
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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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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When you've parked the second car in the garage, and installed the hot tub, and skied in Colorado, and wind-surfed in the Caribbean, when you've had your first love affair and your second and your third, the question will remain, where does the dream end for me?
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We believe in only the government we need, but we insist on all the government we need.
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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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We believe in encouraging the talented, but we believe that while survival of the fittest may be a good working description of the process of evolution, a government of humans should elevate itself to a higher order.
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We are disgusted by the things that we desire, and we desire what disgusts us.
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There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.
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Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?
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We believe in a government that is characterized by fairness and reasonableness, a reasonableness that goes beyond labels, that doesn't distort or promise to do things that we know we can't do.
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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.
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It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided.
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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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