Geraldine Ferraro Quotes

#1. I do believe in the power of prayer.

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#2. It's okay in this country to be sexist. It's certainly not okay to be racist.

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#3. I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.

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#4. By choosing a woman to run for your nation's second highest office, you send a powerful signal to all Americans. There are no doors we cannot unlock. We will place no limits on achievement.

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#5. You don't deliberately submit people you love to something like that. I don't think I'd run again for vice-president. Next time I'd run for president.

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#6. If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.

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#7. Throwing Ronald Reagan out of office at the height of his popularity, with inflation and interest rates down, the economy moving and the country at peace, would have required God on the ticket and She was not available!

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#8. We had prepared, my staff had prepared for me a whole dossier on virtually - on George Bush on his votes on his records, what he had done over the past number of years in public service.

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#9. But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.

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#10. Such a strange thing. What was terrible for a healthy fetus has been wonderful at defeating the cancer cells.

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#11. Politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.

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#12. I knew what leukemia and lymphoma were, but I had never heard of multiple myeloma.

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#13. Every time a woman runs, women win.

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#14. My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

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#15. The promise of our country is that the rules are fair. If you work hard and play by the rules, you can earn your share of America's blessings. Those are the beliefs I learned from my parents.

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#16. We are a religious nation because we do not have a state religion, because the government guarantees freedom of religion but has no role in religion, because not only do we tolerate our religious differences, we celebrate them.

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#17. I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.

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#18. Well of course Bush got Kentucky, because it's a Republican city.

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#19. I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research.

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#20. If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position,

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#21. I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.

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#22. The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper.

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#23. For one thing, one of the wonderful things that we now have is instead of the huge budget surpluses that President Clinton left us with, we now have these huge deficits that we're going to be facing into the future.

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#24. If you don't run, you can't win.

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#25. Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.

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#26. If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.

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#27. See that's a goal that I think it's very good in the debate to find out who the person is.

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#28. I think Obama was terribly sexist.

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#29. I stand before you to proclaim tonight: America is the land where dreams can come true for all of us.

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#30. Some leaders are born women.

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#31. Tonight, the daughter of an immigrant from Italy has been chosen to run for vice president in the new land my father came to love.

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#32. I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.

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#33. I should have had a circuitous answer; that was a non-answer.

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#34. I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

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#35. You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.

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#36. What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.

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#37. You don't go through a bloodbath like this and then walk away from it.

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#38. President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.

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#39. Modern life is confusing no "Ms take" about it.

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#40. If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?

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#41. You had to be tough to be a female member of Congress.

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#42. I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.

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#43. The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.

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#44. The bottom line as far as I was concerned was presenting to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.

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#45. I am the first to admit that were I not a woman, I would not have been the vice-presidential nominee.

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#46. And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through.

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#47. I don't like to practice ahead of time what I'm going to say.

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#48. Babies aren't born knowing differences in color, gender, religions. They're taught those things. They're taught them at home. They're taught in the schools. They're taught in the churches. They're taught in the mosques, in the synagogues.

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#49. Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!

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#50. We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

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#51. People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.

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#52. I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.

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#53. It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.

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#54. I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.

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#55. But I do think its necessary to have debates.

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#56. Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.

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#57. When a guy gets elected to the Senate or the governor's mansion, he wakes up the next morning and says to himself, 'You're presidential material,'

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#58. I'm a competitive person, but I have never understood people's competitiveness at the expense of their colleagues.

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#59. We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

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#60. You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

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