Mario Cuomo

"We speak for millions of reasoning people fighting to preserve our environment from greed and from stupidity."

"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 thi…"

"If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputa…"

"I am a trial lawyer…. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit."

"I would like to tell them, the graduates, all of this, and I know that if we thought they would not be embarrassed by hearing it, we would all be telling them about how proud we are of them and how mu…"

"Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right."

"I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week."

"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."