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.

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

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

But I do think its necessary to have debates.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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,'

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.

Women love to hear a man defending their wife.