Top 65 Ann Richards Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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#3. I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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#4. There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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#5. The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
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#6. Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.
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#7. We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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#8. Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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#9. 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.
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#10. Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.
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#11. I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.
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#12. I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
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#13. Nice slippers," Davin grinned. They were green and furry. "Thanks." I shrugged and looked him over, half expecting to see a new injury. "So what's up?" He had one hand behind his back.
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#15. Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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#16. One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.
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#17. You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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#18. I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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#19. I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you.
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#20. 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.
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#21. They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children.
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#22. After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
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#23. 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.
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#24. If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
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#25. I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in.
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#26. 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.
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#28. Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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#29. I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.
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#31. We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.
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#32. 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.
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#33. Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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#34. 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.
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#35. I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.
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#36. Young women should begin to build bone mass early in their lives. The more mass there is, the less they will lose in later life. They should enjoy a diet of calcium-rich foods and avoid food and drink that causes bone loss.
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#37. Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.
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#38. I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.
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#39. 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.'
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#40. One of the most valuable lessons I learned ... is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.
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#41. There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality.
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#42. There is not a doubt in my mind that the people of America are hunkered down. They are afraid.
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#43. I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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#44. I like candidates who tell me something that is going to make a difference to me.
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#45. I work very hard on my health, and I think about it, of course, like I've never thought before.
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#47. Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.
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#48. 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.
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#49. If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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#50. 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.
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#51. You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun
after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime.
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#52. I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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#53. 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.
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#54. I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.
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#55. I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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#56. Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.
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#57. [Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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#58. 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.
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#59. 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.
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#60. People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
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#61. 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.
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#62. I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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#63. Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
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#64. People work for a living. They got families to raise. Their lives are tough.
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