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I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.
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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If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.
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I knew what leukemia and lymphoma were, but I had never heard of multiple myeloma.
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I should have had a circuitous answer that was a non-answer.
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Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.
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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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You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.
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Well of course Bush got Kentucky, because it's a Republican city.
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If you don't run, you can't win.
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Some leaders are born women.
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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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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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I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.
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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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Such a strange thing. What was terrible for a healthy fetus has been wonderful at defeating the cancer cells.
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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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The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper.
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People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.
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Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.
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I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.
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