Political Quotes

“Madam President, an incredible woman died this week after a long and hard-fought battle with cancer. Geraldine Ferraro led a trailblazing life, constantly achieving and proving the naysayers wrong. She was one of two women in her graduating class from Fordham law school, taking night classes after teaching all day. She was an attorney in a male-dominated New York District Attorney's Office. She was the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 9th District in Queens--a district that most people assumed would not elect her, not because she was a woman but because she was a Democrat. If she had done nothing more, Gerry Ferraro would have earned her place in history. But then, on July 11, 1984, just 64 years after American women won the right to vote, Geraldine Ferraro agreed to be Walter Mondale's running mate in his race for the White House--the first time in history that a woman had ever run on the Presidential ticket of a major political party. ``I didn't pause for a minute'' she later wrote. It's hard for many people today, particularly young people, to understand what a revolutionary act it was for Geraldine Ferraro to agree to break that barrier.…”