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I knew what leukemia and lymphoma were, but I had never heard of multiple myeloma.
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
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Newburgh
New York
Geraldine Anne Ferraro
Leukemia
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If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.
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I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.
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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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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 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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Well of course Bush got Kentucky, because it's a Republican city.
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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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I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.
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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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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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Vice president—it has such a nice ring to it.
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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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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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Modern life is confusing no Ms take about it.
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I should have had a circuitous answer that was a non-answer.
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If you don't run, you can't win.
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Some leaders are born women.
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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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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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