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I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.

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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
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Vice president—it has such a nice ring to it.
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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 you don't run, you can't win.
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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 look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.
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