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You had to be tough to be a female member of 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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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 didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.
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I do believe in the power of prayer.
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I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.
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Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.
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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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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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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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politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.
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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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Every time a woman runs, women win.
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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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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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The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper.
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Modern life is confusing no Ms take about it.
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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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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.
Geraldine Ferraro
Well of course Bush got Kentucky, because it's a Republican city.
Geraldine Ferraro
I stand before you to proclaim tonight: America is the land where dreams can come true for all of us.
Geraldine Ferraro
I should have had a circuitous answer that was a non-answer.
Geraldine Ferraro
