Ann Richards

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.'

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.