Quotes by Ann Richards

About Ann Richards:

Dorothy Ann Willis Richards was an American politician and the 45th Governor of Texas. A Democrat, she first came to national attention as the state treasurer of Texas, when she delivered the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Richards served as the 45th Governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995 and was defeated for re-election in 1994 by George W. Bush. Richards was the second female governor of Texas, and was frequently noted in the media for her outspoken feminism and her one-liners. As of 2015, she was the last Democrat to hold the Texan governor's office.
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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

Ann Richards

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

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 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

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...

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

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

Ann Richards

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

Ann Richards

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

Ann Richards

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

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 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.

Ann Richards

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

Ann Richards

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

Ann Richards

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

Ann Richards

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

Ann Richards

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

Ann Richards

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.

Ann Richards

Author Bio

  • NameAnn Richards
  • DescriptionAmerican politician
  • BornSeptember 1, 1933
  • DiedSeptember 14, 2006
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician