Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.
Mario CuomoWhat I didn't do was pick one thing and keep saying it over and over again, so I could have gotten credit for it.
Mario CuomoThere 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