Ann Richards Quotes

Anyone can relate to struggle, whether you're European or Asian. Anyone can relate to having to get up and go to work and eat.

I have six jobs.

There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.

Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.

When I joined 'Essence,' I was a young, single mother. I was 24. I hadn't gone to college. I wasn't making any money at 'Essence' - what was it, $500 a month - and I was struggling. So I was always looking down the road, always hoping for a better, you know, tomorrow.

We were under a lot of financial pressure when I was growing up.

I've been poor most of my life.

Real life is hard. I'm sorry, but shopping at Tesco is not as much fun as writing jokes for TV shows, and I struggle with it.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

I go to work, and think 'wow, they pay me for this', and I go home.

I'm trying to reestablish my career and do great work and give my kids the life they deserve.

My family were really hard-working, blue-collar people, and I didn't know the idea or concept of working and having fun. I thought you just worked and made money to support your family.

I come from a poor family.

Work is both my living and my pleasure.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

I don't want only a career.

I think that the lady who is waiting on me at the local diner, who has kids in school and the mouths to feed, I think she probably has as nice a life as I have. And she only wants to improve her life, her lifestyle.

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

What I want out of my career is just to work.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing.

I started when I was 39 as a cabinet secretary, and so I feel like I have lived an experience in my life where I can relate to families that struggle, and are scraping by and scrounging.