Ann Richards Quotes

I was a Depression kid, growing up in Oklahoma.

The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

Anybody at that time who had $15 to spend on such things as books also hated Franklin Roosevelt.

This was life in the '30s. This is the way it was with children in the South. I tried to make it general, the kind of things that might happen to any child.

I've lived through the Great Depression.

We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.

In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.

I never felt the Great Depression firsthand. I learned about it at Harvard.

In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.

They were the darkest of times, the years following the crash of the stock market in 1929. Thousands of people across the United States were cast out of their Jobs, off their farms, out of their homes and apartments, and into the crushing depths of poverty.

My aspirations for this country would be on the scope of what Franklin Roosevelt brought to this country in 1932 when he saw a nation that was broken economically.

You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.

I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.

As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.

The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes.

Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.

The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control over agriculture, was a reaction to the specific problems facing producers at that time.

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.

We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didn't know that we were any different from anybody else.

When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.

Understanding the true causes of the Depression, as well as the real economic record of the United States in the 1930s, is an essential ingredient in anyone's economic and historical education.

The New Deal was a socialist revolution.

l had a job, and if you had a job in the depression you were rich.

I've always voted for Franklin Roosevelt for President. My father before me always voted for Franklin Roosevelt for President.