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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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Ann Richards
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 1
Died: 2006
Died: September 13
Former Governor Of Texas
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Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
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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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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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.'
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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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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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People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
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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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Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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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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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.
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I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you.
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I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.
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