Quotes from Geraldine Ferraro

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

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.

If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.

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

politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.

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

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.

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

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

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

I do believe in the power of prayer.

The bottom line as far as I was concerned was presenting to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.

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

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

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

President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.

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

Modern life is confusing no "Ms take" about it.

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

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

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.

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