Ann Richards
Ann Richards
Dorothy Ann Willis Richardswas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth1 September 1933
CityLacy Lakeview, TX
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
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.
Life isn't fair, but government must be,
I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.
The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
A road to a friend's house is never long.
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.
Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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.
Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.