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
leader self-control moral
Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.
kentucky cities republican
Well of course Bush got Kentucky, because it's a Republican city.
running thinking people
You don't deliberately submit people you love to something like that. I don't think I'd run again for vice-president. Next time I'd run for president.
female tough members
You had to be tough to be a female member of Congress.
prayer office kind
My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.
mistake goes-on congress
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.
foreign-policy policy committees
I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.
running winning chariots-of-fire
If you don't run, you can't win.
nice president vices
Vice president—it has such a nice ring to it.
daughter running father
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.
prayer believe
I do believe in the power of prayer.
religious political atheism
Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.
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.
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.