Ann Richards

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

— Ann Richards

I like candidates who tell me something that is going to make a difference to me.

— Ann Richards

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

— Ann Richards

We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love…

— Ann Richards

I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on…

— Ann Richards

July does not a November election make.

— Ann Richards

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say…

— Ann Richards

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

— Ann Richards

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the…

— Ann Richards

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.

— Ann Richards

Young women should begin to build bone mass early in their lives. The more mass there is, the less they will lose…

— Ann Richards

I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the…

— Ann Richards

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

— Ann Richards

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

— Ann Richards

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

— Ann Richards

Life isn't fair, but government must be,

— Ann Richards

Ann Richards on How to Be a Good Republican: 1. You have to believe that the nation's current 8-year prosperity was due…

— Ann Richards

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.

— Ann Richards

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

— 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…

— Ann Richards

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

— 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…

— Ann Richards

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

— Ann Richards

I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.

— Ann Richards

I've had lots of good advice.

— Ann Richards