Geraldine Ferraro Quotes (50 Quotes)

Do you know how many women were in the Senate in 1984 One. We've multiplied that number by 14.

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

I also lose interest if I have to go over and over and over again because it looks to me if you're practicing - it becomes artificial.

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.

I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.

I said the thing... the only thing that would scare me in a campaign or running the country is that debate that you'd have to do during the campaign.

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

Let me say that I'm not a believer in polls and let me say further that what we are talking about are problems that are facing the entire nation.

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.

I look forward to the months ahead as a vigorous contest of issues and ideas,

Let me say, first of all, that I almost resent, Vice President Bush, your patronizing attitude that you have to teach me about foreign policy.

You don't go through a bloodbath like this and then walk away from it.

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

What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.

I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.

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

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!

Modern life is confusing no Ms take about it.

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

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

We fought hard. We gave it our best. We did what was right and we made a difference.

But I do think its necessary to have debates.

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

At first, I kept news of my situation to a limited group of friends and relatives I didn't want people to treat me differently.

And you really do learn a lot about what's going on in different countries by visiting those countries and speaking to the public officials there.

I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.

President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.

See that's a goal that I think it's very good in the debate to find out who the person is.

I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.

When you're talking about Hillary Clinton, it's not as if she's living in a different country,

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

I went from being a kid who lost her father at age 8 and who lived in the South Bronx to almost going in to live in the White House, ... That just tells you what this country is all about.

If you look at the polls, you'd have to say, the mayor is likely to win. I don't believe in polls, but a lot of Democrats are saying, 'It's over.' I know Freddy is not saying that, and I'm not saying that. You just have to hold out hope.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

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

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

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.

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

The purpose of the debate is to find where the two of them are and where the two candidates are on the issues and I think the format is bad.

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.

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.

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.

going to be able to lobby (President Clinton) in a way that no other person could possibly lobby the president of the United States and make sure that she delivers for the state of New York.

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,'

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

I do believe in the power of prayer.

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

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.

If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?