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" 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 reputation- unfairly. "

Mario Cuomo

Lawyer

Law

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" 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. "

" I wish I were as good a man as my son is. "

" My favorite thought about Abraham Lincoln is he believed in two things: loving one another and working together to make this world better. "

" I have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner. "

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" Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights. "

" We Democrats still have a dream. We still believe in this nation's future. "

" The Mafia is a question every time an Italian raises his head. "

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

" Barack Obama is probably one of the brightest in terms of sheer intelligence... also probably the best orator we've ever had as a president. "

" 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. "

" There are only two rules for being successful: one, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it. "

" The biggest aggravation in the Arab world, the biggest reason for their anger toward us and the creation of those suicide terrorists, is Israel and the difficulty with the Palestinian issue. "

" Every minute brings a new opportunity. Every minute brings new growth, new experiences. "

" In 1980, in 1984, millions of middle-class Democrats became Reagan Democrats, and more of them drifted toward the Republicans with Bush in 1988. "

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" In 1982, I wrote in my diary that life is motion, not joy. If the way you measure success in life is by how much joy it brings you, you're measuring inaccurately. Life is also sadness, defeat, striving. It is many things. "

" 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. "

" The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman. "