This set of quotes is from a former baseball play that was drafted and received a bigger bonus than Mickey Mantle. Actually became quite a politician.
"I am a trial lawyer.... Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
Most of us have achieved levels of affluence and comfort unthought of two generations ago. We've never had it so good, most of us. Nor have we ever complained so bitterly about our problems.
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.
There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory."
All from Mario Cuomo
The second piece here is an essay some would call a rant or diatribe. If we truly believe in freedom of speech and are searching for the truth, then we need to read and listen to both sides. Not just the side we believe at this moment.
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