Geraldine Ferraro quotes

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

#Giving Up #Women #Believe

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

#Women #Path #Turns

Some leaders are born women.
-- Geraldine Ferraro

#Leadership #Leader #Born

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

#Dream #Land #America

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

#Peace #War #Women

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

#4th Of July #America #Advantage

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

#Cutting #Opportunity #Research

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

#Doctors #Names #Giving

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

#People #Survivor #Sept 11

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

#Italian #Men #People

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

#Married #Jack The Ripper

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.
-- Geraldine Ferraro

#Men #President #Opponents

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.
-- Geraldine Ferraro

#Feisty #Tough #Sense Of Humor

President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.
-- Geraldine Ferraro

#President #One Liner #President Reagan

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

#Causes #Ask Me

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

#Political #Answers #Should

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

Modern life is confusing no "Ms take" about it.
-- Geraldine Ferraro

#Confusing #Modern

Every time a woman runs, women win.
-- Geraldine Ferraro

#Running #Winning

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.
-- Geraldine Ferraro

#Country #Hard Work #Blessing

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.
-- Geraldine Ferraro

#Wise #Party #Men

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

#Helping Others #People #Expenses

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.
-- Geraldine Ferraro

#Religious #Government #Differences

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

#Religious #Political #Atheism

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

#Leader #Self Control #Morality

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

#Practice

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

#Survivor #Gone #Terrible

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

#Foreign Policy #Committees #Policy

I do believe in the power of prayer.
-- Geraldine Ferraro

#Prayer #Believe

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.
-- Geraldine Ferraro

#Country #Men #White

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.
-- Geraldine Ferraro

#Running #Powerful #Doors

Vice president—it has such a nice ring to it.
-- Geraldine Ferraro

#Nice #President #Vices

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

#Funny Inspirational #Snacks #Long

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.
-- Geraldine Ferraro

#Prayer #Office #Kind

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.
-- Geraldine Ferraro

#Military #Grandmother #Cutting

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

#War #President #President Bush

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

#Men #White #Position

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

#Thinking #Goal #Debate

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

#Looks #Sensitive #Wells

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.
-- Geraldine Ferraro

#Mistake #Goes On #Made

But I do think its necessary to have debates.
-- Geraldine Ferraro

#Thinking #Debate

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.
-- Geraldine Ferraro

#Believe #Lines #Introducing

I think Obama was terribly sexist.
-- Geraldine Ferraro

#Thinking #Sexist

I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.
-- Geraldine Ferraro

#Aggravation #Trials #Lawyer

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

#Husband #Team #Kids

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

#Way #Debate

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

#Cancer #Lucky #Cancer Survivor