Geraldine Ferraro
Geraldine Ferraro
Geraldine Anne Ferrarowas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 August 1935
CityNewburgh, NY
CountryUnited States of America
practice ahead-of-time
I don't like to practice ahead of time what I'm going to say.
running winning chariots-of-fire
If you don't run, you can't win.
country hard-work blessing
The promise of our country is that the rules are fair. If you work hard and play by the rules, you can earn your share of America's blessings. Those are the beliefs I learned from my parents.
wise party men
A wise man once said, 'Every one of us is given the gift of life, and what a strange gift it is. If it is preserved jealously and selfishly, it impoverishes and saddens. But if it is spent for others, it enriches and beautifies.' My fellow Americans: We can debate policies and programs, but in the end what separates the two parties in this election campaign is whether we use the gift of life for others or only ourselves.
helping-others people expenses
I'm a competitive person, but I have never understood people's competitiveness at the expense of their colleagues.
religious differences government
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.
kentucky cities republican
Well of course Bush got Kentucky, because it's a Republican city.
religious political atheism
Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.
leader self-control moral
Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.
president one-liner president-reagan
President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.
confusing modern-life life-is
Modern life is confusing no "Ms take" about it.
feisty tough sense-of-humor
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.
should-have political answers
I should have had a circuitous answer; that was a non-answer.
female tough members
You had to be tough to be a female member of Congress.