Ann Richards Quotes

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I am delighted to be here with you this evening, because after listening to George Bush all these years, I figured you needed to know what a real Texas accent sounds like.

Ann Richards
The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.

Ann Richards
I have seen the very bottom of life: I was so afraid I wouldn't be funny anymore. I just knew that I would lose my zaniness and my sense of humor. But I didn't. Recovery turned out to be a wonderful thing.

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

Ann Richards
… we're going to tell how the cow ate the cabbage.

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

Ann Richards
Poor George, he can't help it—he was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
Of George Bush

Ann Richards
In response to a question about her legacy:
How about, "She changed the economic future of Texas." And that really beats what I feared my tombstone was going to say, and that was, "She kept a really clean house."

Ann Richards
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.'

Ann Richards
I am convinced that biology should be taught as a course in human-animal relationships — not as a study of dead bodies or caged victims.

Ann Richards
I learned early on that people liked you if you made them laugh.

Ann Richards
The regular Democratic Party and its organization was run by men who looked on women as little more than machine parts.

Ann Richards