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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.

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
Lawyer
Politician
Writer
Newburgh
New York
Geraldine Anne Ferraro
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You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.
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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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The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper.
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I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.
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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 didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.
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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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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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You had to be tough to be a female member of Congress.
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If you don't run, you can't win.
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People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.
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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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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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I do believe in the power of prayer.
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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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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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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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Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.
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I stand before you to proclaim tonight: America is the land where dreams can come true for all of us.
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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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