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You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.
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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Geraldine Anne Ferraro
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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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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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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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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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Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.
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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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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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Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.
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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 serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.
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Well of course Bush got Kentucky, because it's a Republican city.
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You had to be tough to be a female member of Congress.
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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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I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.
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Some leaders are born women.
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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 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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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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We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.
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