Top 100 Cuomo Quotes
#1. I did once answer the question 'What would you say on your tombstone?' I know what I would say: 'Mario Cuomo, 1932 - dash,' and, 'He tried.' That's it.
Mario Cuomo
#2. It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing.
William J. Clinton
#3. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo just signed a bill that bans powdered alcohol from the state. So if you live in New York and you're consuming powdered alcohol, your life just somehow got even worse.
Jimmy Fallon
#4. The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.
Richard M. Nixon
#5. At times, Mario Cuomo seemed to have the humility of a Jesuit and the goals of an emperor.
Mike Barnicle
#6. What Andrew Cuomo said is, truly, a scandal. It's a scandal if he actually thinks it - that those who hold conservative views on abortion, gun rights and marriage are extreme, anathema and have no place in the state.
Peggy Noonan
#7. I'm on stage where Rivers Cuomo from Weezer was standing? It's kind of a mind trip.
Drake Bell
#8. Senator Biden was correct by calling for more to look into Governor Cuomo's defense policy. It is clear to me, by researching the governor's record on the issue, that he would be a wildcard on national defense issues.
Sam Nunn
#9. Andrew Cuomo own story taught Andrew Cuomo that as Americans, we are bound together as one people, and our country's success rests on the success of all of us, not just a fortunate few.
Barack Obama
#10. Well, I know I worked for Governor Rockefeller the last time he ran for his fourth term, and I obviously ran against Governor Cuomo the time he ran for his fourth term.
George Pataki
#11. See, my idea of cute comes with an IQ requirement. It's geeky cute. It's Rivers Cuomo, not Justin Timberlake. It's Gideon Yago, not Brian Mcfayden. Jimmy Fallon, yes please! Brad Pitt, no thank you.
Megan McCafferty
#12. New Yorkers have been fortunate to have Andrew Cuomo as our Attorney General - protecting working New Yorkers against the banks, insurance companies and big corporations.
Eric Schneiderman
#13. If you're tempted to believe with Governor Cuomo that government is just like Mom and Pop rather than Big Brother, just ask yourself one question: When was the last time all the IRS wanted from you was a hug and a kiss.
Paul Laxalt
#14. An Associated Press report called the President's antics 'Bible-thumping politics.' Clinton's message was decidedly religious and partisan, as was Governor's Cuomo's remarks as he 'also cited religious themes and maxims.' Why didn't the press, the ACLU, and People for the American Way cry foul?
Gary DeMar
#15. I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs.
Trent Reznor
#16. a pair of storefronts. Charlie Brody fell in love with and married a girl named Marion Cuomo, whose
Jerry Capeci
#17. I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.
Andrew Dost
#18. Mario Cuomo famously said that we campaign in poetry and govern in prose. We also critique the government in poetry - angsty, adolescent poetry, but poetry nonetheless. The
Eliot Nelson
#19. I have a natural instinct to feel guilty and that I've let people down. I've apologized in more songs than 'Back to the Shack.' Going back to our second record, the closing lines are 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.' It's definitely part of my personality.
Rivers Cuomo
#20. The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.
Andrew Cuomo
#21. The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law.
Mario Cuomo
#22. Meditation hasn't separated me from my life and my friends and my work. It's just made my fear go away, so I can just be that much more engaged.
Rivers Cuomo
#23. There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.
Mario Cuomo
#24. Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.
Rivers Cuomo
#25. I think naturally my orientation is from my father.
Andrew Cuomo
#26. The Mafia is a question every time an Italian raises his head.
Mario Cuomo
#27. We Democrats still have a dream. We still believe in this nation's future.
Mario Cuomo
#28. I felt frustrated by the limitations of rock and the lifestyle of touring around on a bus and playing the same songs over and over. So I went back to school to study music, and one of the things I got into was the Italian opera composer Puccini.
Rivers Cuomo
#29. 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.
Mario Cuomo
#30. When 'Nevermind' came out, my roommate had the CD. At first, I actually thought, 'This is too polished and commercial.' It was a little off-putting. But then I was like, 'This is the best music ever.' It felt so close to what I wanted to do.
Rivers Cuomo
#31. I'm just living each day, and I'm better equipped to do so. I mean, I used to be totally afraid, I used to have, like, permanent stage fright. But now I'm trying to have fun. I'm trying to bring as much happiness to as many people as possible.
Rivers Cuomo
#32. I like to get input from all different kinds of listeners, including the really conservative ones, and sometimes those listeners steer me in a direction that I haven't seen. But at the end of the day, my vote is always to go in the direction that makes me the most excited.
Rivers Cuomo
#33. The most nerve-wracking experience is an oral presentation in class. And right under that would be doing 'Saturday Night Live' or 'David Letterman.' One of those shows.
Rivers Cuomo
#34. I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised.
Mario Cuomo
#35. The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.
Andrew Cuomo
#36. There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.
Andrew Cuomo
#37. I've always been a fan at home. That's the one joke I have with Sam [Champion]. "I've always loved you! I remember wanting to be you in grade school!"
Chris Cuomo
#38. Every minute brings a new opportunity. Every minute brings new growth, new experiences.
Mario Cuomo
#39. I had not even thought of running for president until one day in 1991, at a small fund-raiser, completely unanticipated, someone stood up and said, 'Hey, Mario, in all the years we've supported you, we've never heard you talk about the presidency, and we want to know why not.'
Mario Cuomo
#40. I really don't need to suffer. I can really become a happy person and still make good music - in fact, better music.
Rivers Cuomo
#41. I wish I were as good a man as my son is.
Mario Cuomo
#42. I'm going to change everything you believe about HUD.
Andrew Cuomo
#43. With each step I take, I see that my ability to perform gets a little better. So until it starts getting worse, I'm going to keep moving forward.
Rivers Cuomo
#45. I'm not going to raise taxes; I'm not going to have a wage increase for public employees.
Andrew Cuomo
#46. Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.
Andrew Cuomo
#47. I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.
Andrew Cuomo
#48. What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay.
Rivers Cuomo
#49. No one in the modern history of this country, no president, has done more to move toward a balanced budget than has President Bill Clinton.
Mario Cuomo
#50. I have some good books of Bach keyboard music transcribed for guitar, and there's always a nylon-string guitar hanging on the wall in my house and a bunch of classical guitar books to grab. I kind of do that just for fun.
Rivers Cuomo
#51. If enough people out there want a physical product, I'll be happy to make one. I'd say about 10,000 people is "enough."
Rivers Cuomo
#52. We believe in only the government we need, but we insist on all the government we need.
Mario Cuomo
#53. The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.
Mario Cuomo
#54. You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?
Mario Cuomo
#55. Barack Obama is probably one of the brightest in terms of sheer intelligence ... also probably the best orator we've ever had as a president.
Mario Cuomo
#56. Most people don't really need to hear a six-minute guitar solo that modulates between five keys and time signatures. What they want is a good song.
Rivers Cuomo
#57. Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.
Mario Cuomo
#58. I had rock-star dreams from 8 or 9 almost nonstop. I thought it was going to be like being a god on earth: having as many women as you want whenever you want them, having super powers, being incredibly wealthy, never doing laundry.
Rivers Cuomo
#59. I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now.
Andrew Cuomo
#60. I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.
Mario Cuomo
#61. I have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner.
Mario Cuomo
#62. Marriage equality changed life for people.
Andrew Cuomo
#64. I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.
Andrew Cuomo
#65. You're also looking at a global warming solution here in Europe: smaller vehicles, more energy efficient, many which use diesel fuel which is more efficient. And the price of gas here is $6 a gallon to discourage guzzling. A lot of big ideas and innovations coming out of Europe.
Chris Cuomo
#67. You will not be able to tell that they are capable of greatness until you provide them with a packed house, a 3-and-2 count and the game is on the line.
Mario Cuomo
#68. I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?
Andrew Cuomo
#69. The first good player I watched as a kid was Joe DiMaggio, and that was like ballet. Since then, I played sandlot and college ball and came to understand how difficult it can be.
Mario Cuomo
#70. For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish ... I don't mess with sacred things.
Mario Cuomo
#71. I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.
Mario Cuomo
#72. I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.
Mario Cuomo
#73. Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.
Mario Cuomo
#74. I don't think anyone would argue with the notion that there have been serious abuses on Wall Street.
Andrew Cuomo
#75. Rock and Roll Over' was the first Kiss album I heard, but I was totally oblivious to their whole image and the makeup and all that. I was so out of touch with the wider world.
Rivers Cuomo
#76. I am one who believes that the world goes from the slime to the sublime. And you can take Darwin and all your philosophers and all your ontologists, and that's the direction.
Mario Cuomo
#77. People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.
Mario Cuomo
#78. A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force.
Andrew Cuomo
#79. Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality.
Andrew Cuomo
#80. There is no basis to say I'm being coy about running for president. If I chose to explore the presidency, I wouldn't do it in a backward way. I'll say, 'I'm exploring the presidency.'
Mario Cuomo
#81. If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people.
Andrew Cuomo
#82. It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.
Rivers Cuomo
#83. 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?
Mario Cuomo
#84. People like Pete Peterson, the former secretary of commerce and Blackstone and titan of Wall Street, etc., has been writing books for years about the debt and deficit.
Mario Cuomo
#85. 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.
Mario Cuomo
#86. You can't just talk politics all the time - it's boring.
Chris Cuomo
#87. I do want to make music that people love, but I also want to make music that I love. I know I can't please everyone with anything I do, so I don't think too much about how other people are going to take things.
Rivers Cuomo
#88. Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.
Mario Cuomo
#89. 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
#90. I was fixated on Prince's 'Black Album' for a long time.
Rivers Cuomo
#91. We in the network world are used to having time constraints and saying only what you have already thought through 150 times, because you don't have that much expansive opportunity.
Chris Cuomo
#92. 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.
Mario Cuomo
#93. I signed up for eHarmony once, and it took three hours to fill out that online form - so many personal questions. Then I clicked on submit, and instantaneously they responded and said, 'We are sorry, but there is no one any where in the world that is appropriate for you.' So that was it - I gave up.
Rivers Cuomo
#94. Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.
Andrew Cuomo
#95. It's troubling for me as a Catholic to be at odds with the church.
Andrew Cuomo
#97. I meditate an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. Once a year I go away for a long retreat. And overall, I just feel more comfortable in my own skin and less anxious, less sad, less fearful.
Rivers Cuomo
#98. When I was 15 and dreaming about being a rock star ... I thought the whole point of it was to get chicks.
Rivers Cuomo
#99. The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit.
Mario Cuomo
#100. I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.
Andrew Cuomo
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