Mario Cuomo once famously remarked, "You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose." This metaphor, highlighting the shift from rhetoric to reality, applies to various contexts. A good example is ...

Four decades ago, New York Gov. Mario Cuomo (D) coined the aphorism, “You campaign in poetry, and you govern in prose.” Like most pearls of political wisdom, Cuomo’s line stuck because it ...

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. Mario Cuomo’s adage has been updated and adapted by his successors in the modern ...

The famous line from Mario Cuomo is that while politicians campaign in poetry, they must govern in prose. True enough, but it's more accurate to say that they govern in spreadsheets. In state ...

He didn’t simply campaign in poetry and govern in prose, as most politicians are wont to. Governor Mbah campaigned in poetry and also governs in poetry. From modest baselines in nearly all socio ...

Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo once said, “We campaign in poetry but we govern in prose.” Would that we campaigned in either! A cache of writings like Bowman’s is an uncommonly ...

CHICAGO — There’s an old political saw: You campaign in poetry and govern in prose. That took on a more literal meaning Wednesday night as Amanda Gorman, the closest thing this country has ...

“You campaign in poetry; you govern in prose.” It was an ear-pleasing way of reminding the victors, but more importantly, their voters, that the lofty aspirations of politics ultimately yield ...

“You’re supposed to campaign in poetry and govern in prose,” he said in his final campaign speech on April 27th, on the eve of the election. “As the assembled media will tell you, I ...

Photo: Charly Triballeau/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. Mario Cuomo’s adage has been updated and adapted by his successors in the modern ...