Ann Richards Quotes

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Ann Richards

Profession : Politician

Birth : September 1, 1933

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

Ann Richards

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

Ann Richards

I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in.

Ann Richards

Everything that we used to think got taught at home now seemingly has to be taught in the public school system, and something is going to get lost in the process.

Ann Richards

I have an awfully good life.

Ann Richards

There is not a doubt in my mind that the people of America are hunkered down. They are afraid.

Ann Richards

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.

Ann Richards

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.

Ann Richards

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

Ann Richards

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.

Ann Richards

I don't think people maybe think that the government does tell them the truth. I think they expect politicians who are going to tell them one thing and then when they get in office do something else.

Ann Richards

Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.

Ann Richards

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

Ann Richards

I work very hard on my health, and I think about it, of course, like I've never thought before.

Ann Richards