Ann Richards Quotes

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Ann Richards

Profession : Politician

Birth : September 1, 1933

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

Ann Richards

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

Ann Richards

Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.

Ann Richards

Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.

Ann Richards

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.

Ann Richards

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.

Ann Richards

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

Ann Richards

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.

Ann Richards

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.

Ann Richards

People work for a living. They got families to raise. Their lives are tough.

Ann Richards

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.'

Ann Richards

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.

Ann Richards

Well, let me tell you, any conservative that's unhappy with George Bush warms my heart, in any way that they can wake up and smell the coffee would be really great.

Ann Richards

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

Ann Richards

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

Ann Richards

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

Ann Richards

I've had lots of good advice.

Ann Richards

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

Ann Richards

Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.

Ann Richards

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.

Ann Richards