Quotes from Geraldine Ferraro

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I'm a competitive person, but I have never understood people's competitiveness at the expense of their colleagues.

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

Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.

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

If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.

If you take advantage of everything America has to offer, thereÂ's nothing you canÂ't accomplish.

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.

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

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

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

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

Some leaders are born women.

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

Every time a woman runs, women win.

But I do think its necessary to have debates.

Women love to hear a man defending their wife.

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.

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.

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