Frank Luntz Quotes

Too many prefer to cling to the thing that divides us, and precious few are willing to come together over the thing that unites us.

Only ways you can keep folks hating is to keep them apart and separated from each other.

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

Divisiveness is not good for the people.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

We're so bitterly divided these days, the appearance of a true 'other' might be the best chance of bringing us all together.

Now it's time for America to bind the wounds of division.

We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.

The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.

I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

What good is to be expected from creating division when engaged in war …?

A nation divided against itself cannot stand.

I believed in the goodness of the Australian people; I believed they did not want to be attacking each other, and from those thoughts, I got the idea of Reconciliation in the campaign slogan and of turning this into something practical by calling a summit to bring representatives of all sections of society together, from the wealthiest to the poor.

I think a lot of folks are beginning to feel that the forces that are tearing us apart in this country are stronger than the forces that tie us together. I don't believe that.

Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance.

Obama's only attempt to unify the country was to unify people who believe that his enemies need to be eliminated.

We develop sentiments that we are only going to work with people like us. But you don't build up a nation by working with people like you. You overcome a history of conflict by reaching out to people very much unlike you.

As we've grown as a country, we've allowed our fears and our doubts and our questions about things that we don't know to become more divisive than uniting us as a country, as a people.

Where people are trying to split Americans from each other I want there desperately to be bipartisanship.

We live in the greatest country in the world, but the tone and destructive rhetoric across the ideological spectrum is tearing our country apart and we must return to a society that works towards finding common ground on issues where we disagree.

The E.U. Referendum clearly divided us, and little has been done by those that lead us to bring us back together.