Mario Cuomo, the former governor of New York, passed away on Thursday at age 82.

Mario Cuomo was the governor of New York from 1983 to 1994. Cuomo’s cause of death was heart failure. The Democratic party tried to get him to run for president on two separate occasions, but he chose not to, reports The New York Times.

Here is a collection of Mario Cuomo quotes to remember, as collected from BrainyQuote.com.

• “Every time I’ve done something that doesn’t feel right, it’s ended up not being right.”
• “I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week.”
• “You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”
• “The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.”
• “The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.”

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