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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.
Ann Richards
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Ann Richards
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 1
Died: 2006
Died: September 13
Former Governor Of Texas
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Dorothy Ann Richards
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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.
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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.
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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.
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