Geraldine Ferraro Quotes

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

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

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

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

Some leaders are born women.

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

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

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

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

But I do think its necessary to have debates.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Every time a woman runs, women win.

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

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,'

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

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

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

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

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

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

I do believe in the power of prayer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I think Obama was terribly sexist.

President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.