Ann Richards

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

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

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

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

I've had lots of good advice. ”

Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up. ”

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

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 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. ”