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Some leaders are born women.
Geraldine Ferraro
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Geraldine Ferraro
Age: 75 †
Born: 1935
Born: August 26
Died: 2011
Died: March 26
Attorney
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Newburgh
New York
Geraldine Anne Ferraro
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I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.
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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.
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If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.
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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.
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I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.
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Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.
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Well of course Bush got Kentucky, because it's a Republican city.
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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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Every time a woman runs, women win.
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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.
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If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.
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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 knew what leukemia and lymphoma were, but I had never heard of multiple myeloma.
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Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.
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You had to be tough to be a female member of Congress.
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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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I should have had a circuitous answer that was a non-answer.
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