Geraldine Ferraro Quotes

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

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

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.

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

Some leaders are born women.

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

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

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.

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.

I think Obama was terribly sexist.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I do believe in the power of prayer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

But I do think its necessary to have debates.

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

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

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,'

National campaigns are tough. Yes, you have to be prepared to be attacked, and I have to tell you, if you get elected, you have to also be prepared.

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

And it was, it was not beating George Bush, believe it or not, the bottom line as far as I was concerned was introducing to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.

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

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

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

Vice president—it has such a nice ring to it.

Women love to hear a man defending their wife.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.