Quotes from Ann Richards


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Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.


I like candidates who tell me something that is going to make a difference to me.


Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.


I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.


I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.


I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.


I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.


I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.


I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.


Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.


We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.


I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.


I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.


I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'


We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.


Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.


Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.


Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass.


I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.


I've had lots of good advice.