Geraldine Ferraro Quotes
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My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.
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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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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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Some leaders are born women.
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The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper.
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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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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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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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Women love to hear a man defending their wife.
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I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.
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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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If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman, he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.
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I knew what leukemia and lymphoma were, but I had never heard of multiple myeloma.
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A wise man once said, 'Every one of us is given the gift of life, and what a strange gift it is. If it is preserved jealously and selfishly, it impoverishes and saddens. But if it is spent for others, it enriches and beautifies.' My fellow Americans: We can debate policies and programs, but in the end what separates the two parties in this election campaign is whether we use the gift of life for others or only ourselves.
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Let no one doubt, we will defend America's security and the cause of freedom around the world. But we want a president who tells us what America is fighting for, not just what we are fighting against. We want a president who will defend human rights - not just where it is convenient - but wherever freedom is at risk - from Chile to Afghanistan, from Poland to South Africa
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I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.
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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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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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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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I'm a competitive person, but I have never understood people's competitiveness at the expense of their colleagues.
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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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Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.
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the Republicans love to say that the Democratic Party is ruled by 'special interests.' But when pressed to name these 'special interests,' the usual reply is women, blacks, teachers, and unions. Those are 'special interests' to be proud of - because together they comprise the majority of Americans. What about the 'special interests' that dominate the Republican Party - the oil companies, the banks, the gun lobby, and the apostles of religious intolerance?
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I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.
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If you don't run, you can't win.
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I should have had a circuitous answer; that was a non-answer.
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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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You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.
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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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I think Obama was terribly sexist.
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