Ann Richards Quotes - Page 2

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

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.

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

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

July does not a November election make.

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.

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.

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.

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'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 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.

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

Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.

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

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.

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

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.

Most people assume that physician language is akin to technical, non-understandable jargon. It does not have to be that way. Doctors do not perform witchcraft. They simply interpret what they are told and what tests reveal. They diagnose and prescribe treatment. Our responsibility is to help doctors know what is going on in our bodies and to insist on clear, precise, understandable language in response.

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

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

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

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

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