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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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Congress
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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.
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,'
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Modern life is confusing no Ms take about it.
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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 didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.
Geraldine Ferraro
politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.
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
If you don't run, you can't win.
Geraldine Ferraro
You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.
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
People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.
Geraldine Ferraro
Vice president—it has such a nice ring to it.
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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.
Geraldine Ferraro
If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.
Geraldine Ferraro
Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.
Geraldine Ferraro
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
I should have had a circuitous answer that was a non-answer.
Geraldine Ferraro
You had to be tough to be a female member of Congress.
Geraldine Ferraro
The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper.
Geraldine Ferraro
We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.
Geraldine Ferraro
