Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Geraldine Ferraro
Age: 75 †
Born: 1935
Born: August 26
Died: 2011
Died: March 26
Attorney
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Lawyer
Politician
Writer
Newburgh
New York
Geraldine Anne Ferraro
Position
Woman
White
Happens
Concept
Country
Concepts
Would
Obama
Men
Caught
Lucky
More quotes by Geraldine Ferraro
If you don't run, you can't win.
Geraldine Ferraro
I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.
Geraldine Ferraro
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
The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper.
Geraldine Ferraro
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
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!
Geraldine Ferraro
You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.
Geraldine Ferraro
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,'
Geraldine Ferraro
Vice president—it has such a nice ring to it.
Geraldine Ferraro
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
If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.
Geraldine Ferraro
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
I knew what leukemia and lymphoma were, but I had never heard of multiple myeloma.
Geraldine Ferraro
You had to be tough to be a female member of Congress.
Geraldine Ferraro
I should have had a circuitous answer that was a non-answer.
Geraldine Ferraro
I do believe in the power of prayer.
Geraldine Ferraro
We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.
Geraldine Ferraro
Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.
Geraldine Ferraro
I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.
Geraldine Ferraro
If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.
Geraldine Ferraro
