Mario Cuomo Government Quotations

You have these people who don't like the government they're supposed to be running,

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.

Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.

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.

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

It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided.