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Geraldine Ferraro [1935-2011] American

Rank: 101
Politician, Attorney

Geraldine Anne Ferraro was an American attorney, a Democratic Party politician, and a member of the United States House of Representatives. In 1984, she was the first female vice presidential candidate representing a major American political party.
Ferraro grew up in New York City and worked as a public school teacher before training as a lawyer.

Humor, Peace, Strength, War

Quote	Tags	Rank
If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?		101
I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.		102
Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!		103
My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.		104
You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.	Peace, War	105
But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.		106
And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through.		107
I don't like to practice ahead of time what I'm going to say.		108
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.	Humor	109
I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.		110
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.		111
I do believe in the power of prayer.		112
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.		113
I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.		114
We had prepared, my staff had prepared for me a whole dossier on virtually - on George Bush on his votes on his records, what he had done over the past number of years in public service.		115
President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.		116
But I do think its necessary to have debates.		117
See that's a goal that I think it's very good in the debate to find out who the person is.		118
I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.		119
I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.		120
I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research.		121
What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.	Strength	122
The bottom line as far as I was concerned was presenting to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.		123
For one thing, one of the wonderful things that we now have is instead of the huge budget surpluses that President Clinton left us with, we now have these huge deficits that we're going to be facing into the future.		124
People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.		125
You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.		126
If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.		201
I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.		202
I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.		203
We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.		204

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