Ann Richards Quotes

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.

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.

I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.

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.

We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.

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

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'

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

Life isn't fair, but government must be.

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.

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.

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.

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.'

Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.

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.

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

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

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

If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.

A road to a friend's house is never long.

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

Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.

Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.

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.

We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.

I have an awfully good life.

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'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.

I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

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

I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.

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

July does not a November election make.

There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.

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.

One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.