Cuomo Quotes & Sayings

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor. — Richard M. Nixon

Lesson 1 from Spitzer: Don't alienate the legislature on Day 1. — Andrew Cuomo

It is cool to have a label head that is also a songwriter, in a band, and produces records. — Rivers Cuomo

You can't ever make serious progress against terrorism unless you deal with Israel. — Mario Cuomo

I have heard the critics. What they are spewing are lies, nothing more. My defense policy calls for an efficient and strong military for our country. We live in dangerous times, but we must remember that we have to defend the United States against dangerous and modern threats. The Cold War is ending. Defense hawks like Senator Nunn need to understand this. — Mario Cuomo

I'm very big on focus. — Andrew Cuomo

I went to electric razors so I would not have to look at myself in the morning. — Mario Cuomo

I am the government. — Andrew Cuomo

I love writing songs. One of the toughest things is structure; it just works when you use verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. And as soon as you become aware of that formula, you start to have a bad conscience when you write with that particular structure. — Rivers Cuomo

I think if I wasn't a musician, I would be a high-school band director or orchestra director. I like working with large groups of musicians and bringing out the dynamics and accomplishing something as a team. — Rivers Cuomo

What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay. — Rivers Cuomo

I can't imagine Weezer stopping. We just love doing what we're doing, and I think we'll keep going until we fall down dead. Even if the audience is abandoning us, I can't imagine doing anything else! — Rivers Cuomo

I am against the death penalty. — Andrew Cuomo

I worked in the Clinton administration. — Andrew Cuomo

I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs. — Trent Reznor

I decided to try celibacy because I heard it would help the meditation, and I tried meditation because I heard it would help with the music. So, it all really comes back to the music. — Rivers Cuomo

It seems like Weezer has gotten better and better at getting attention for everything besides our music. Part of that is just the nature of our culture now - you really have to scream to get some attention, so people even know you have a record out that they might want to listen to. — Rivers Cuomo

I meditate two hours a day, and every year I do one big long meditation course. I love it, and I'm really into it. — Rivers Cuomo

Most of the songs I write are just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake. — Rivers Cuomo

When you try to communicate too many ideas, sometimes you wind up communicating nothing. — Andrew Cuomo

I want to be the candidate placed on the ballot by the people, not the party. — Andrew Cuomo

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

In matters outside the courtroom, courts have decried differential treatment between print and broadcast media. New York City mayoral candidates Mario Cuomo and Edward Koch tried to exclude selected members of the media in 1977 by limiting access to their campaign headquarters to those who had received invitations. Ruling in American Broadcasting Cos. v. Cuomo, a federal court observed, "once there is a public function, public comment, and participation by some of the media, the First Amendment requires equal access to all of the media or the rights of the First Amendment would no longer be tenable."44
In 1981, a federal court in Georgia struck down a judge's order excluding television crews from a White House press pool. The court said the order violated the press and public's First Amendment right of access to White House events. It felt television coverage "provides a comprehensive visual element and an immediacy, or simultaneous aspect, not found in print — Marjorie Cohn

You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? — Mario Cuomo

Wes Clark is a man of whom you can ask a question, and he will look you directly in the eye, and give you the most truthful and complete answer you can imagine. You will know the absolute truth of the statement as well as the thought process behind the answer. You will have no doubt as to the intellect of the speaker and meaning of the answer to this question ... So you can see, as a politician, he has a lot to learn. — Mario Cuomo

I'm not going to allow myself to be pushed politically. — Andrew Cuomo

I don't think anyone would argue with the notion that there have been serious abuses on Wall Street. — Andrew Cuomo

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty. — Andrew Cuomo

A lot of my stories about the old days, they're delicious and funny. But every time I recall the early days, it's painful. With every anecdote, it's painful because you're summoning up the terribly, terribly difficult life of my parents. And it's painful because I didn't realize at the time how hard it was for them. — Mario Cuomo

I wish I were as good a man as my son is. — Mario Cuomo

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered. — Andrew Cuomo

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. — Mario Cuomo

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

I had a chance to go on the Supreme Court of the United States, and my whole family was more disappointed in my deciding not to do that than in my deciding not to run for president - much more. — Mario Cuomo

Probably the most reliable comfort music for me over the years has been Bach. — Rivers Cuomo

I didn't get as much attention as I wanted from girls as a teenager. I thought that if I became a rock star, I would finally get all that I wanted - but it didn't happen. — Rivers Cuomo

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

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

People think I'm a freak or something, but I'm actually a really normal guy. — Rivers Cuomo

I will take a draft to the Yankees or to the Mets. A draft for president is not conceivable. — Mario Cuomo

I haven't lost my head yet. — Andrew Cuomo

I really want to disappear, grow a beard, not talk to anyone, not make any friends ... I just want to disappear and study. — Rivers Cuomo

The beauty of America is that I don't have to deny my past to affirm my present. No one does. We can love this nation like a parent and still embrace our ancestral home like cherished grandparents. — Mario Cuomo

At 18, I moved to L.A. with my heavy metal band Avant Garde, which was very much influenced by Metallica. At 19, I got a job at Tower Records, and everything started to change very quickly. I started listening to the Velvet Underground, Pixies, early Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and also earlier music like the Beatles. — Rivers Cuomo

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

There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community. — Mario Cuomo

I guess I'm just a born performer or artist or sharer. I find the intimate details of my life compelling and interesting. I guess that I'm assuming that everyone else does, too. — Rivers Cuomo

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

I wouldn't say that I relax and enjoy anything. But I think my pessimism helps. I never really expect anything good to happen, so when it does, it's a nice surprise. — Rivers Cuomo

It's an old story; it's as old as our history. The difference between Democrats and Republicans has always been measured in courage and confidence. 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 by the side of the trail. The strong, the strong they tell us, will inherit the land. We Democrats believe in something else. We Democrats believe that we can make it all the way with the whole family intact, and we have more than once. — Mario Cuomo

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. — Mario Cuomo

I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years. — Mario Cuomo

But apparently yoiu don't need dot-com wealth to ruin an area for its low-income residents. The Pioneer Press quotes Secretary of HUD Andrew Cuomo ruing the "cruel irony" that prosperity is shrinking the stock of affordable housing nationwide: "The stronger the economy, the stronger the upward pressure on rents. — Barbara Ehrenreich

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

Bill Clinton has done more to help the middle class than any leader in decades. — Mario Cuomo

We are disgusted by the things that we desire, and we desire what disgusts us. — Mario Cuomo

Please make this nation remember how futures are built — Mario Cuomo

California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there. — Mario Cuomo

The reason I started with prostitutes was solely to work on my negotiating skills. Once I mastered negotiating with naked women, dealing with Interscope was a piece of cake. — Rivers Cuomo

The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has a secular rationale at least as strong as its religious rationale. — Mario Cuomo

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

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

America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the globe came here with little more than the desire to realize themselves. — Mario Cuomo

There are some who ask us to believe that if we want the best of times for ourselves, the fit and the fortunate, then we'll just have to learn to live with the worst of times for millions of other Americans - that we're doomed to be a nation of the lucky and the left-out. I don't believe it. My mother didn't believe it. Your ancestors didn't believe it. And I don't think you should believe it. — Mario Cuomo

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

It's troubling for me as a Catholic to be at odds with the church. — Andrew Cuomo

I think audiences sometimes mistakenly assume a quality performance comes from some great emotional disturbance rather than really intense concentration. Concentration and flow is what it's all about. — Rivers Cuomo

A shining city is perhaps all the president sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But there's another part to the shining city. In this part of the city there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, more and more people who need help but can't find it. — Mario Cuomo

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. — Mario Cuomo

Our rights do not come from God. That's your faith, that's my faith, but that's not our country. — Chris Cuomo

Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful? — Mario Cuomo

If I'm breathing in 2016, I'll be happy. — Andrew Cuomo

The Mafia is a question every time an Italian raises his head. — Mario Cuomo

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

Climate change is a controversial subject, right? People will debate whether there is climate change ... that's a whole political debate that I don't want to get into. I want to talk about the frequency of extreme weather situations, which is not political. — Andrew Cuomo

In 1962, President Kennedy succeeded in captivating Americans by explaining the advantages of being the first country to reach the moon and the dangers of allowing another nation to beat us there. — Mario Cuomo

Debates are boring. — Mario Cuomo

I'm going to change everything you believe about HUD. — Andrew Cuomo

a pair of storefronts. Charlie Brody fell in love with and married a girl named Marion Cuomo, whose — Jerry Capeci

I've tried every which way for writing lyrics - everything from using really bizarre imagery and metaphors, sort of obscuring the facts of what I'm singing about, all the way over to a song like 'Losing My Mind,' where you're just reading my thoughts as they're occurring. — Rivers Cuomo

I'm often troubled by a very strong instinct to share everything that's going on with me. I want to feel that connection, even with people I don't know. Then this other voice says, 'That's not prudent. People will use what you've said to hurt you.' — Rivers Cuomo

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

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

A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force. — Andrew Cuomo

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

I think there is a very subtle shift from the metal I grew up on to Weezer. I think the big shift was from a minor key to a major key. That made a huge difference in how it was perceived. — Rivers Cuomo

I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit. — Mario Cuomo

We believe in only the government we need, but we insist on all the government we need. — Mario Cuomo

There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying. — Mario Cuomo

My parents were immigrants. — Mario Cuomo

A judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail. — Mario Cuomo

With no faith, purely as a scientific experiment, I started meditating and watched if it changed my music. It did, but it didn't make it more mellow. It made it easier to get into the flow of creativity. — Rivers Cuomo

The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law. — Mario Cuomo

There's a rhythm to the legislative session and there are rhythms to legislative sessions. So I think that's very important to take into consideration when you are deciding what to do when. — Andrew Cuomo

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

The values derived from religious belief will not - and should not - be accepted as part of the public morality unless they are shared by the pluralistic community at large, by consensus. — Mario Cuomo

At times, Mario Cuomo seemed to have the humility of a Jesuit and the goals of an emperor. — Mike Barnicle

Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment. — Andrew Cuomo

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

In some ways, I feel like I was Nirvana's biggest fan in the Nineties. I'm sure there are a zillion people who would make that claim, but I was just so passionately in love with the music that it made me feel sick. It made my heart hurt. — Rivers Cuomo