Geraldine Ferraro was an American politician as well as lawyer that was best known for her historic election as the first women candidate for Vice Head of state of the United States in 1984. Ferraro was born on August 26, 1935, in Newburgh, New York City, and was elevated in a working-class family of Italian-American heritage.
Ferraro was a successful lawyer prior to going into national politics, and also she served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985, representing New York's 9th congressional district. In 1984, she was picked as the running friend of Democratic presidential prospect Walter Mondale, making her the first female in American background to be chosen for the Vice Presidency by a major political event.
Although Mondale as well as Ferraro eventually lost the election to incumbent President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H.W. Bush, Ferraro's nomination was a historic moment for American politics and for ladies's legal rights. Ferraro continued to be energetic in politics and also public life throughout the rest of her profession, consisting of acting as a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights under President Bill Clinton.
Ferraro passed away on March 26, 2011, at the age of 75, following a battle with numerous myeloma. She is remembered as a trailblazing figure in American national politics and as an ideas to females and women around the globe.
Our collection contains 30 quotes who is written / told by Geraldine, under the main topic Peace.
"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!"
"If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know"
"I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well"
"You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace"
"I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control"
"I do believe in the power of prayer"
"I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy"
"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"
"President Reagan's one-liners were terrific"
"I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress"
"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"
"What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion"
"I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible"
"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"
"People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors"
"I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name"
"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"
"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"
"My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers"
"I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research"
"I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way"
"I don't like to practice ahead of time what I'm going to say"
"We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan"
"The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper"
"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"
"The bottom line as far as I was concerned was presenting to the public who Gerry Ferraro was"
"If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?"
"But I do think its necessary to have debates"
"See that's a goal that I think it's very good in the debate to find out who the person is"
