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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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Diplomat
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Newburgh
New York
Geraldine Anne Ferraro
Congress
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Vice president—it has such a nice ring to it.
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I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.
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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.
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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.
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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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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,'
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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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Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.
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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.
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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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You had to be tough to be a female member of Congress.
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I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.
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politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.
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We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.
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It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.
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Such a strange thing. What was terrible for a healthy fetus has been wonderful at defeating the cancer cells.
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I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.
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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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I should have had a circuitous answer that was a non-answer.
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If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.
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