Zitat des Tages von Ann Richards:
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.
I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'
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.
I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.
I work very hard on my health, and I think about it, of course, like I've never thought before.
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.
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.
Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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.
I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
I like candidates who tell me something that is going to make a difference to me.
I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.
We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.
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.
Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.
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.
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.
People work for a living. They got families to raise. Their lives are tough.