Geraldine Ferraro Quotes

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

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.

But I do think its necessary to have debates.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!

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

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

Immediately, I was caught up in an escape plan to spirit me out of San Francisco and back to North Oaks in a manner more suited to James Bond than Gerry Ferraro.

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

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

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.

Some leaders are born women.

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

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

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

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

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

Every time a woman runs, women win.

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.

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.

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

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!

I do believe in the power of prayer.

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

I think Obama was terribly sexist.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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,'

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

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

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