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Mario Cuomo

"The problems of a retired schoolteacher in Duluth are OUR problems. That the future of the child in Buffalo is OUR future. That the struggle of a disabled man in Boston to survive and live decently is OUR struggle. That The hunger of a woman in Little Rock is OUR hunger. That the failure anywhere to provide what reasonably we might to avoid pain is OUR failure."

Source : 1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA

Mario Cuomo

#Pain Quotes #Children Quotes #Struggle Quotes

“I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.”
“Those clocks are sophisticated instruments that calculate time by measuring electrical charges called coulombs -- given the rapidity and volume of electrons that move through the measuring device the calibrator must adjust at certain points which was the delay you see -- the delay is just recalibrating for the clock moving too quickly during the 10 -- 10ths of a second before the delay -- this insures that the actual playing time during a period is exactly 20 minutes That is not an opinion -- that is science -- amazing devise quite frankly.”
“A woman should always stand by a woman.”
“I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.”
“Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot.”
“The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist!”
“Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns.”

Source : "Fictional character: Richard Vernon". "The Breakfast Club", 1985.
“If everyone in America agreed that 80 percent of their contributions for House, Senate, and president could only come from people making contributions of $100 or less, we'd have a pretty darn good system. The influence of money would be gone.”

Source : "Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), political roundtable". "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com.

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