Quote

Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.

Ann Richards

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ann Richards
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 1
Died: 2006
Died: September 13
Former Governor Of Texas
Politician
Lacy Lakeview
Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
Raised
Hell
Probably
Would

More quotes by Ann Richards

Image
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.
Ann Richards
Image
Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
Ann Richards
Image
We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.
Ann Richards
Image
A road to a friend's house is never long.
Ann Richards
Image
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.
Ann Richards
Image
Life isn't fair, but government must be.
Ann Richards
Image
I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
Ann Richards
Image
I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
Ann Richards
Image
One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.
Ann Richards
Image
Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
Ann Richards
Image
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.
Ann Richards
Image
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.
Ann Richards
Image
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
Image
I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
Ann Richards
Image
After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
Ann Richards
Image
Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.
Ann Richards
Image
July does not a November election make.
Ann Richards
Image
There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
Ann Richards
Image
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Ann Richards
Image
I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.
Ann Richards