98 Quotes by Ann Richards

I’m not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.

I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don’t have any.

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it’s OK to have all the sadness.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.