Ann Richards

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

"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."

"Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass."

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

"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."

"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 weak."

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