Ann Richards Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  Running, Reality, Order

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

  Ann Richards

  Family, Doe, Mediocrity

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• 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.

  Ann Richards

  Baseball, Fun, Cells

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

  Ann Richards

  Education, Teaching, Memorable

  Ann Richards (2013). “Straight from the Heart”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Feet, Mouths, Politics

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• 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.

  Ann Richards

  People, Income, Pay

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• 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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  Grief, Sadness, Thinking

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

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  Strong, Feelings, Looks

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

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  Friendship, Wise, Long

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• 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.

  Ann Richards

  Sister, Morning, Eggs

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

  Ann Richards

  Bills, Ifs

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• 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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  Mother, Nurse, Expectations

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• Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.

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  Hell, Raised

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

  Ann Richards

  Texas, Size, Texan

  Ann Richards, Peter Knobler (1989). “Straight from the heart: my life in politics and other places”, Simon & Schuster

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• 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.

  Ann Richards

  Children, Airplane, Talking

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• 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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  Government, Needs, Not Afraid

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

  Ann Richards

  Doctors, Giving, Diagnosis

  Source: bookpage.com

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• 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.

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  Responsibility, Doctors, People

  Source: bookpage.com

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• 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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  Relationship, People, Hunger

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

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  New York, People, Groups

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

  Ann Richards

  Country, Block, Cooking

  Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 19 July 1988, Atlanta GA

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• 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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  Fathers Day, Dad, College

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

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  Change Is Good, Feels, Miscellaneous

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

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  Life, Money, Struggle

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• July does not a November election make.

  Ann Richards

  July, Doe, November

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