Wendy Davis Quotes

I am tired of the constant demonizing of people via political labels.

You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It's one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.

People are so quick to demonize and stereotype those on the other side that they often say that it's impossible to work with people on the other side.

I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.

Whether you are liberal or conservative, people seem to know the talking points for whatever the issue of the day is. Very rarely does it seem like these are opinions that people are coming up with themselves; it's like they watched the right cable news channel, and now they know what they are supposed to think, and they repeat that.

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.

The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations.

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history.

I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.

Republicans are not a political party. It's a mental condition.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.

American political life has reached the stage where a vocal and powerful group uses "liberal" as a term of contempt.... Never before in our history has this been true. Liberals and conservatives have disagreed and, on occasion, have stoutly fought each other; but not in the lifelong recollection of the speaker has any similar attempt been made to convert an honorable word for a socially useful attitude into a sling of mud to be thrown at a political opponent.

There's no such thing as a moderate. A moderate is just a liberal disguise, and they are doing everything they can to derail the conservative agenda

These days everything is discussed in terms of political partisan perspective including the weather—especially the weather.

Politics has become a little like football. We cheer for our favorite team no matter how well they are playing.

That's one of the problems with this country: they put you in a box. You're a Republican, you're a Democrat, you're conservative, you're liberal. And that's really unfair.

Labeling someone as an '-ist' who believes in an '-ism' because of the person's policy preference is just a shortcut to playground-style name-calling, cloaked in political terminology.

I'm not the one calling Trumpists the equivalent of a cult. The Drive-Bys, some of them do, as a means of not having to deal with you seriously.

Republicans paint everything that Democrats have been for as socialism, too far to the left, as extreme, and it didn't matter how moderated it was; it didn't matter that Obamacare started out as a compromise. You might as well say what you're actually for and show what you really are.

All that Tim Kaine has is to try to convince people that conservatives are racist - and you know what, people are smarter than that.

Everything that is wrong with this country today, the people who are opposed to Donald Trump are responsible for!

There is no greater threat to Washington, D.C., than Bernie Sanders, and they know it.

Leftists are fighting back against Trump not with policy differentials, but rather with insane rhetoric and temper tantrums.

Every time you work on a political campaign, half the people hate you. That's how it is.