American - Politician | September 1, 1933 - September 13, 2006
I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.
Ann Richards
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We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.
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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.
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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.
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Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.
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I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.
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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.'
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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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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.
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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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I have an awfully good life.
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I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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