Mario Cuomo (1932-2015) Tribute List
Mario Cuomo, 3-term governor of New York and expert articulator of his party's principles, died on January 1, 2015. Cuomo became a national figure with a series of speeches in 1984, several of which are quoted below. The keynote address at the Democratic National Convention that year was so eloquent that many in the audience were left wondering why Cuomo wasn't the man the party was nominating for president. Whether he would have succeeded in that role or not, Mario Cuomo was a singular politician and a singular master of the language.