Ann Richards
Ann Richards
Dorothy Ann Willis Richardswas an American politician and the 45th Governor of Texas. A Democrat, she first came to national attention as the state treasurer of Texas, when she delivered the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Richards served as the 45th Governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995 and was defeated for re-election in 1994 by George W. Bush. Richards was the second female governor of Texas, and was frequently noted in the media for her outspoken...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth1 September 1933
CityLacy Lakeview, TX
CountryUnited States of America
I was really pleased ... we were all really nervous going into this debate and I thought that John Kerry knocked it out of the ballpark,
She's always going to take on whatever is the toughest challenge.
I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.
I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
A road to a friend's house is never long.
The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
Life isn't fair, but government must be,
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.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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.
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.