Wendy Davis Quotes

It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.

It's always an uphill battle. You know, I'm a Republican in Maryland. This is the bluest of the blue.

There's no question about the fact that for Democrats, Texas is a tough place.

The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.

It is the ultimate conceit of conservatives: that more than half of American voters don't make up more than half of our country.

Maryland has a tradition of Democratic Party conservatism.

The poor don't vote all the time.

Unlike the U.S., Iran has no problems with low-voter turnout in elections; the last time, the government got the support of 110 per cent of the population.

Democrats should have learned in 2016 that what counts in American politics is location, not turnout.

Hillary Clinton's loss has exposed the lack of Democratic power in this country at all levels.

If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.

I think the post-Rick-Perry Texas is a Texas that is more competitive between the Democrats and Republicans. I think the Republicans still have a huge advantage, but I think if we're arguing that competition is good for the system, then I think a stronger two-party system in Texas is inevitable, and I think that it will happen.

A lot of people think I'm crazy, you know, leaving a Democratic supermajority state to go to the superminority in Congress.

In the U.S., it's all about turnout, which means you have to appeal to every single Democrat to get them to vote.

In the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, American voters were forced to choose between a liberal Democrat and weak establishment Republicans. Democrats won both times.

The black vote is always important, and the reason is it serves as a tremendous base for the Democratic Party. On the national level, Democrats traditionally receive at least 90 percent of the black vote.

I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.

If you are a Democrat, and you get less than 90% of the black vote, you are going to likely lose your election.

If Democrats start consistently winning Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, the electoral outlook for Republicans in the future is mighty bleak.

You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.

Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.

New Mexico has been, in the past, a swing state.