Wendy Davis Quotes

Be informed, ask questions, band together with your community, and fight at the local level. And make sure you take your local elections as seriously as the national ones.

I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.

He survived politically for forty years. No matter what the issue was, it did not concern him. He knew that if he could call a man’s name in a crowd, shake hands with him and ask him about his wife and children, whose names were also in the little book, he had that man’s vote.

On my show, I often discuss all the ways one can get involved politically on a local level, precincts, et al.

City of Los Angeles is my home, and it is my duty to lead by example, contribute all that I can, and help make the world a better place with the tools and resources available to me.

Our communities are strong because local leaders and active citizens listen and learn from the people they serve.

I believe my role as mayor is to be out in the community and as much as possible, I want my team out in the community.

In a volunteer organization there has to be time for community.

I try to be in the office as much as possible to get the full experience working with volunteers, making phone calls, putting out signs - things that the communications director probably normally wouldn't do.

If you're going to build a business that's based on community, your business has to have community in it.

I'm always entrenched in the community. I'm always working with the high schoolers, no matter what school they're at. I'm always in my community.

In my four years as a state legislator, I went to dozens of nontraditional events - everything from bird watchings to tree giveaways, neighborhood cleanups to self-defense clinics for women - going where people are instead of asking them to come to me. It's how I learned about their struggles and how legislative decisions affected their lives.

There is nothing that says you can't be active and love your community and fight for your community and still do your job.

It's about being a voice in the community. There's so many ways to be a voice, and that's what I'm figuring out.

I'm big on my community and want to stay that way.

I have my chops in organizing, and I know how to create political space through movement building.

The background of a mayor of a city of any size is a background of somebody who on one hand is an executive and on the other hand is very close to the ground.

As the documentary 'True Son' illustrates, my campaign for city council started really small - with eight mostly political neophytes in my living room and with young people knocking on doors.

That's all that life is really about - setting up the party, talking to people who are like-minded, making something happen and keeping it moving, you know.

One of my main jobs is to cultivate advocates and activists.

It's very important to get friends on board, friends who make a difference.

I want to be high-profile with the average Angeleno. I want to be out there holding office hours on a curb in Boyle Heights.

Building community coalitions with pro-life groups and pro-business groups takes time.

What I like to do is have an opportunity to talk with people in neighborhoods and answer their questions one-on-one. I think it's one of the places I have greatest strength.

Relationships are personal, even in business, so sharing some of yourself and taking an interest in others helps to build trust and break down walls.