Quotes by Ann Richards - Page 2

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
Ann Richards / Former Governor Of Texas
Inspirational
Believe
Mistake
Recovery
Responsibility
Young
Believe Responsibility People
Model
Role
Role Model
Young People
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Everything that we used to think got taught at home now seemingly has to be taught in the public school system, and something is going to get lost in the process.
Ann Richards / Former Governor Of Texas
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Process
Public School
School System
Taught
Seemingly
System
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Well, let me tell you, any conservative that's unhappy with George Bush warms my heart, in any way that they can wake up and smell the coffee would be really great.
Ann Richards / Former Governor Of Texas
Coffee
Conservative
Smell
Unhappy
Wake Up
Great Heart Me
Bush
George
George Bush
Wake
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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.
Ann Richards / Former Governor Of Texas
Lessons
Mistake
Valuable
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I don't think people maybe think that the government does tell them the truth. I think they expect politicians who are going to tell them one thing and then when they get in office do something else.
Ann Richards / Former Governor Of Texas
Government
Office
Truth People Politicians
Truth Government People
Politicians
Expect
Maybe
Something Else
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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.
Ann Richards / Former Governor Of Texas
Body
Disease
Mass
Menopause
Osteoporosis
Percent
Your Body
Almost Everyone
Attacks
Bone
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Young women should begin to build bone mass early in their lives. The more mass there is, the less they will lose in later life. They should enjoy a diet of calcium-rich foods and avoid food and drink that causes bone loss.
Ann Richards / Former Governor Of Texas
Bones
Causes
Loss
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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 / Former Governor Of Texas
Baseball
Cells
Fun
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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.
Ann Richards / Former Governor Of Texas
Expectations
High Expectations
Housewife
Mother
Nurse
Entertainer
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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.
Ann Richards / Former Governor Of Texas
Chance
Believe
Country
Disabled
Fair Play
Hispanic
Neighborhood
Play
Poor
Small Town
Anyone Else
Democrats
Fair
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There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality.
Ann Richards / Former Governor Of Texas
Special
Texas
Two
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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.
Ann Richards / Former Governor Of Texas
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Children
Drawing
Flying
Talking
Towers
Watching Television
Choking
Image
Pictures
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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 / Former Governor Of Texas
Home
Children
Country
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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.
Ann Richards / Former Governor Of Texas
Running
Society
Challenges
Economic
Fit
Order
Reality
Running Away
Social
Whole
Work Society Challenges
Living
Try
Assumptions
Away
Seen
Old
Set
Programs
Problems
Stretch
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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 / Former Governor Of Texas
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Smart
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Ann Richards on How to Be a Good Republican: 1. You have to believe that the nation's current 8-year prosperity was due to the work of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, but yesterday's gasoline prices are all Clinton's fault. 2. You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own. 3. You have to be against all government programs, but expect Social Security checks on time.
Ann Richards / Former Governor Of Texas
Believe
Gasoline Prices
Years
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Most people assume that physician language is akin to technical, non-understandable jargon. It does not have to be that way. Doctors do not perform witchcraft. They simply interpret what they are told and what tests reveal. They diagnose and prescribe treatment. Our responsibility is to help doctors know what is going on in our bodies and to insist on clear, precise, understandable language in response.
Ann Richards / Former Governor Of Texas
Doctors
People
Responsibility
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I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression and missed the great big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They didn't tell us things were hard for us because we were different, or isolated, or special interests. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.
Ann Richards / Former Governor Of Texas
War
Regret
Sacrifice
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