Geraldine Ferraro Quotations

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

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

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

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

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

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.

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 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.

I do believe in the power of prayer.

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

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

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

But I do think its necessary to have debates.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

No one is walking around saying Mike Bloomberg is something we have to dread. That has made it tough for Freddy from the get-go.

No one is walking around saying Mike Bloomberg is something we have to dread, ... That has made it tough for Freddy from the get-go.

I look forward to the months ahead as a vigorous contest of issues and ideas,

The purpose of the debate is to find where the two of them are and where the two candidates are on the issues and I think the format is bad.

going to be able to lobby (President Clinton) in a way that no other person could possibly lobby the president of the United States and make sure that she delivers for the state of New York.

I also lose interest if I have to go over and over and over again because it looks to me if you're practicing - it becomes artificial.

I think they went in as much to eliminate any evidence as to search for anything in particular.

I said the thing... the only thing that would scare me in a campaign or running the country is that debate that you'd have to do during the campaign.

Some of the stuff we dealt with was just ridiculous.

Let me say that I'm not a believer in polls and let me say further that what we are talking about are problems that are facing the entire nation.

Let me say, first of all, that I almost resent, Vice President Bush, your patronizing attitude that you have to teach me about foreign policy.

When you're talking about Hillary Clinton, it's not as if she's living in a different country,

And you really do learn a lot about what's going on in different countries by visiting those countries and speaking to the public officials there.

Do you know how many women were in the Senate in 1984? One. We've multiplied that number by 14.

At first, I kept news of my situation to a limited group of friends and relatives; I didn't want people to treat me differently.

They went into the basement, they went on the roof, they went upstairs to the second floor. We allowed them total access to anything that they wanted to see.

If you look at the polls, you'd have to say, the mayor is likely to win. I don't believe in polls, but a lot of Democrats are saying, 'It's over.' I know Freddy is not saying that, and I'm not saying that. You just have to hold out hope.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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,'

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Every time a woman runs, women win.

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

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 think Obama was terribly sexist.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

Some leaders are born women.

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