Ann Richards quotes

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

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

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

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

I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
- Ann Richards

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

You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
- Ann Richards

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

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.
- Ann Richards

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

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

Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
- Ann Richards

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

They've told farmers that they were selfish, that they would drive up food prices if they asked the Government to intervene on behalf of the family farm, and we watched farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
- Ann Richards

They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children.
- Ann Richards

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
- Ann Richards

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.
- Ann Richards

Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.
- Ann Richards

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
- Ann Richards

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