98 Quotes by 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.

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.

I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

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.

I have an awfully good life.

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

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

July does not a November election make.