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" I like candidates who tell me something that is going to make a difference to me. "
Ann Richards
Make A Difference
Me
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I have an awfully good life. "
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" Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books. "
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" I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it. "
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" 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. "
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" Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected. "
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" 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.' "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back. "
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" I've had lots of good advice. "
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" 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. "
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