Geraldine Ferraro Quotes - Page 2

It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

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.

Well of course Bush got Kentucky, because it's a Republican city.

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.

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!

I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research.

If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.

The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper.

I should have had a circuitous answer; that was a non-answer.

President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.

You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.

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.

I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

I don't like to practice ahead of time what I'm going to say.

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.

People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.

I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.

Vice president—it has such a nice ring to it.

You had to be tough to be a female member of Congress.

Such a strange thing. What was terrible for a healthy fetus has been wonderful at defeating the cancer cells.

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

Tonight, the daughter of an immigrant from Italy has been chosen to run for vice president in the new land my father came to love.

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,'