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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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Lacy Lakeview
Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
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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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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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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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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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I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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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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