“Both the state party and my own campaign are looking for races where we can make a difference. We are out to win.”
GOV. EDWARD D. DIPRETE, May 5, 1986 (the first issue of Providence Business News)
“I think it’s fundamental that the government should get more involved. The richest country in the world should not have people who are going hungry.”
ALAN SHAWN FEINSTEIN, investor, July 25, 1988
“What do I owe to my country? To do the right thing. To be the vehicle for opening doors of opportunity for women.”
GERALDINE FERRARO, former U.S. Rep. and unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. vice presidency in 1984, April 4, 1988
“I am a lawyer. And that doesn’t make a lawyer any better than the person he’s sitting with, whether he’s a bus driver or a worker at a factory or a mill.”
RAUL L. LOVETT, founding partner, Lovett, Schefrin & Gallogly Ltd., May 18, 1987
“It’s a nutty business. It’s not like buying loaves of bread. You’re dealing with a lot of wild people and musicians.”
RICHARD LUPO, owner, Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel, Sept. 22, 1986
“There are no women on the [state licensing] board. It is an issue that needs to be addressed by the governor and by our gubernatorial candidates.”
JOANN ZINGONI, president of the Rhode Island Pharmaceutical Association, Aug. 6, 1990
“I couldn’t sit by and let other people do this task: If not me, then who? Why not me? There was no good answer to that, so I got off my ass and I did something.”
KENNETH E. FISH, chairman of the board of Rhode Island Project/AIDS, April 25, 1988
“The sanity of America is the security of the world. And I believe so today.”
JOHN O. PASTORE, former R.I. governor and U.S. senator, Sept. 1, 1986
