I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.
If you don’t run, you can’t win.
I knew what leukemia and lymphoma were, but I had never heard of multiple myeloma.
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.
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,’
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.
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!
Such a strange thing. What was terrible for a healthy fetus has been wonderful at defeating the cancer cells.
It’s okay in this country to be sexist. It’s certainly not okay to be racist.
You people married to Italian men, you know what it’s like.
If you ask me a question, don’t tell me what the question is in advance, ’cause I’d rather not know.
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.
President Reagan’s one-liners were terrific.
I should have had a circuitous answer; that was a non-answer.
Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.
Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.
Modern life is confusing no “Ms take” about it.
People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.
You had to be tough to be a female member of Congress.
Well of course Bush got Kentucky, because it’s a Republican city.
Immediately, I was caught up in an escape plan to spirit me out of San Francisco and back to North Oaks in a manner more suited to James Bond than Gerry Ferraro.