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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
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Lawyer
Politician
Writer
Newburgh
New York
Geraldine Anne Ferraro
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Congress
Female
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We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.
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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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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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I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.
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Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.
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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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Modern life is confusing no Ms take about it.
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I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.
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I knew what leukemia and lymphoma were, but I had never heard of multiple myeloma.
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I do believe in the power of prayer.
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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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The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper.
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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 stand before you to proclaim tonight: America is the land where dreams can come true for all of us.
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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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If you don't run, you can't win.
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Well of course Bush got Kentucky, because it's a Republican city.
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I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.
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