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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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Lacy Lakeview
Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
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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.
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I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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.
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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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.
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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
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July does not a November election make.
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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
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One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.
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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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