It Was Mario Cuomo's Great Gift And

We Are A People Of Faith. We Have Been So Secure In That Faith That We Have Enshrined In Our Constitution Protection For People Who Profess No Faith. And Good For Us For Doing So. That Is What The First Amendment Is All About.

When I First Came To Washington In The 1960s, Even At The Height Of The Vietnam War, Until The End There In '68 There Was A Certain Climate Of Cooperation. And Then In The Late Sixties And In Through The Seventies, Politics Began Getting More Mean. And Then From The Eighties On It Seemed To Be Institutionalized, This Personal Attack Business. And I Just Hate It.

Turning 50 Gives Me More Yesterdays Than Tomorrows.

America Just Works Better When More People Have A Chance To Live Their Dreams.

When I Started Out In Public Life There Used To Be A Saying We'd Hear From Time To Time, That Every Man Who Runs For Public Office Will Claim That He Was Born In A Log Cabin He Built With His Own Hands. Well, My Mother Knew Better. And She Made Sure I Did Too.