Ann Richards quotes

Everything that we used to think got taught at home now seemingly has to be taught in the public school system, and something is going to get lost in the process.

Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass.

I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.

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.

Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.

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.

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.

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.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

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.

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.

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.'

I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in.

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.

I work very hard on my health, and I think about it, of course, like I've never thought before.