Geraldine Ferraro

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.

I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.

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

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

I do believe in the power of prayer.

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

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

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.