Geraldine Ferraro

Politician

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.

I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.

But I do think its necessary to have debates.

You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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