Demonize Quotes

It's easy to demonize from a distance.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

I think the idea of trying to demonize Governor Romney's going to backfire. Their attempts so far have failed pretty outstandingly and I think at the end of the day, people are going to say, 'what was Obama's record?' Governor Romney's got pro-growth Reaganesque proposals on the table.

You see Democrats who will demonize business. I don't do that. You see Republicans who demonize labor. I don't do that.

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.

Insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American Dream. That may turn out to be a good re-election strategy for President Obama, but is a demoralizing message for America.

I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.