Top 50 Geraldine Ferraro Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Some leaders are born women.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

2. “If you don’t run, you can’t win.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

3. “Every time a woman runs, women win.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

4. “I knew what leukemia and lymphoma were, but I had never heard of multiple myeloma.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

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

— Geraldine Ferraro

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

— Geraldine Ferraro

7. “My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

8. “I do believe in the power of prayer.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

9. “Vice president – it has such a nice ring to it.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

10. “President Reagan’s one-liners were terrific.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

11. “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.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

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

— Geraldine Ferraro

13. “If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there’s nothing you can’t accomplish.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

14. “I should have had a circuitous answer; that was a non-answer.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

15. “I think Obama was terribly sexist.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

16. “Modern life is confusing no “Ms take” about it.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

17. “We’ve chosen the path to equality, don’t let them turn us around.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

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

— Geraldine Ferraro

19. “You people married to Italian men, you know what it’s like.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

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

— Geraldine Ferraro

21. “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.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

22. “Throwing Ronald Reagan out of office at the height of his popularity, with inflation and interest rates down, the economy moving and the country at peace, would have required God on the ticket and She was not available!”

— Geraldine Ferraro

23. “You don’t go through a bloodbath like this and then walk away from it.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

24. “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.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

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

— Geraldine Ferraro

26. “It’s okay in this country to be sexist. It’s certainly not okay to be racist.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

27. “Babies aren’t born knowing differences in color, gender, religions. They’re taught those things. They’re taught them at home. They’re taught in the schools. They’re taught in the churches. They’re taught in the mosques, in the synagogues.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

28. “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.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

29. “I stand before you to proclaim tonight: America is the land where dreams can come true for all of us.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

30. “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.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

31. “I didn’t serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

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

— Geraldine Ferraro

33. “You don’t have to have fought in a war to love peace.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

34. “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman, he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

35. “Well of course Bush got Kentucky, because it’s a Republican city.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

36. “When a guy gets elected to the Senate or the governor’s mansion, he wakes up the next morning and says to himself, ‘You’re presidential material,’”

— Geraldine Ferraro

37. “Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

38. “By choosing a woman to run for your nation’s second highest office, you send a powerful signal to all Americans. There are no doors we cannot unlock. We will place no limits on achievement.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

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

— Geraldine Ferraro

40. “The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

41. “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.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

42. “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.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

43. “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.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

44. “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.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

45. “But I do think its necessary to have debates.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

46. “Such a strange thing. What was terrible for a healthy fetus has been wonderful at defeating the cancer cells.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

47. “I don’t like to practice ahead of time what I’m going to say.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

48. “I didn’t look very sensitive and they didn’t know me very well.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

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

— Geraldine Ferraro

50. “I enjoyed debate on the floor but it’s not really debate in the same way.”

— Geraldine Ferraro