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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.

From Ann Richards

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.'

From Ann Richards

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.

From Ann Richards

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

From Ann Richards

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.

From Ann Richards

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.

From Ann Richards

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.

From Ann Richards

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

From Ann Richards

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

From Ann Richards

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