ANN RICHARDS

I have an awfully good life.

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

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

I don't think people maybe think that the government does tell them the truth. I think they expect politicians who are going to tell them one thing and then when they get in office do something else.

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 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.'

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

I've had lots of good advice.

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

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

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

People work for a living. They got families to raise. Their lives are tough.

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

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

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.

Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.

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

There is not a doubt in my mind that the people of America are hunkered down. They are afraid.

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.

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.

Well, let me tell you, any conservative that's unhappy with George Bush warms my heart, in any way that they can wake up and smell the coffee would be really great.

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

I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.

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 think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.