Mario Cuomo Quotes

I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their West Coast headquarters is in the Bob Barker building.

To a certain extent, I think I've become an animal-rights person.

No one is more keen than me to see the Hunting Act repealed, because I believe in the management of wildlife.

When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.

As people's lifestyles have improved, they've become more and more sensitive toward animals. It's becoming a universal value, like Western classical music.

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.

I've changed my will to show my concern for animal rights.

The Europeans do not respect human rights alone but go further and defend animal rights in the manner of that tart Brigitte Bardot. They even defend vegetation rights like those of trees in public parks. Indeed they equate liberty and permissiveness, notably in sexual matters.

It's harder to pass a law than stop one.

If I could solve these problems with passing laws in the Congress, I would do so.

If you can't legislate, you can't deal with problems.

The animal rights cause is something close to my heart and something I truly believe in.

The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately life-hating.

I had been involved in animal welfare groups, but DDAL presented an opportunity to actually create and pass legislation aimed at issues which really matter to so many people. From local spaying and neutering ordinances, to legislation against puppy mills, to standards to prevent animals from being tested for the sake of a new cosmetic, we could - and did - make a difference.

I've become an animal rights activist.

A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much...

The country don’t need no legislation

Legislative proposals are not merely vehicles for expressing policy, they are devices for getting policy decided.

Legislating is perceived as governing and governing is perceived as legislating. Legislation—conceiving it, proposing it, fighting over it, winning or losing, making the proper proclamation when passed or signed—not only is the main ‘action’ seen in Washington but is the key political currency in dealing with the voting public.... The President must necessarily consider legislative initiatives and actions as central to his own interest and his own leadership efforts.

Legislating should be done in a manner that is understandable to the governed.

In Sacramento you simply had to think about what the law ought to be and leave it to someone else to implement. In San Francisco, you hear about it the next day.

Your not going to change the hearts and minds. You have to change to law.

All the legislation in the world cannot fix what is wrong with America.

Don’t hurry to legislate.

You start from the broad premise that all of us have a common duty to the country to perform. Legislation is always the art of the possible. You could, of course, follow a course of solid opposition, of stalemate, but that is not in the interest of the country.