Mario Cuomo Quotes
The Republicans called it “trickle down” when Hoover tried it. Now they call it “supply side”. But it’s the same shining city for those relative few who are lucky enough to live in its good neighborhoods. But for the people who are excluded—for the people who are locked out—all they can do is stare from a distance at that city’s glimmering towers.
This quotation electrified the crowd as few speeches at Democratic conventions ever had. The speech turned Cuomo into a national political figure and made him the front runner for the Democratic Presidential Nomination for the next 8 years. But he never chose to run despite overwhelming support and polls indicating he would be victorious in a general presidential election.
Mario Cuomo, 1932-2015, Governor, New York State (Democrat), Address, Democratic National Convention, San Francisco, 1984
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See {34743} or {33971} for a more colorful and eloquent statement of the same notion.
The crisis of inequality of income and wealth has occurred seven times in American history.
Kent came from a very affluent family,
The “competition of the poor included the political and social activism competition.”
Abrams originated this famous phrase which many have been used subsequently for various “socialized” government benefits that were available to the rich but not the poor. He was referring to the fact that at the time, the government provided housing assistance to the rich by having federally insured mortgages and granting tax deductions for the interest in home mortgages, but there was no assistance to the poor who could only afford to rent and had no tax deductions nor was there any federal public housing assistance. During the Great Recession the phrase was often used when the government gave bail out money to General Motors and the largest banks who were close to bankruptcy, but the landscaping gardener or the hot dog vendor whose business was falling because of the recession were told that is the capitalist system—there are some winners and some losers. The government officials who advocated the bailout did not disagree about the fairness and appropriateness of the Abrams phrase but if they had not bailed the banks out, the entire economic system of the country would probably have collapsed and the ensuing depression would hurt the average worker and the poor even more. Related to the recent “too big to fail” concept.
One dramatic example of this principle is that India at the end of the 20th century had more billionaires than the United States did.
Mario Matthew Cuomo was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 52nd Governor of New York for three terms, from 1983 to 1994. A member of the Democratic Party, Cuomo previously served as Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1979 to 1982 and Secretary of State of New York from 1975 to 1978. He is the father of current New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and CNN news anchor Chris Cuomo.
