There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money..

You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics….

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..

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..

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….

I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax..

We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong..

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need..

Life isn't fair, but government must be..

I have an awfully good life..

I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression and missed the great big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, l….

I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know..

Ann Richards on How to Be a Good Republican: 1. You have to believe that the nation's current 8-year prosperity was due to the work of Ronald Reagan ….

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost..

One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other..

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

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth..

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

One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we lear….

Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life..

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..