This quote by Mario Cuomo is a reminder that the promises made during a political project are typically not the same as the truths of governing. Campaigning is often filled with lofty rhetoric and grand promises, but the reality of governing is typically far more mundane and useful. This quote is a pointer that politicians should be held accountable for their promises and that governing is typically a much more uphill struggle than campaigning. It is a pointer that governing requires hard work, compromise, and a desire to make challenging decisions. It is also a reminder that politicians ought to be truthful and realistic about what they can and can not accomplish.
This quote is written / told by Mario Cuomo somewhere between June 15, 1932 and today. He/she was a famous Politician from USA.
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"We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry"
"Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going"
"I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that"
