Building Bridges Quotes

We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...

Our differences needn't divide us, but unity takes work.

I think it's a great story, the story of Babel. I think anyone can direct it as an analogy for a lot of different situations.

Good behavior wins even an enemy.

Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.

Everybody really don't rock with each other in Philly - that's a problem. 'Cause me being in Atlanta now, I stay in Atlanta, and I get to see everybody work with everybody no matter what.

What really made me want to get involved in politics was seeing the rise of the antichrist Donald Trump. I started to see how he was energizing the country, but he was energizing the country in total opposite ways than Barack did. He wasn't bringing people together; he was literally tearing people apart. He literally wants to build a wall while I feel like Barack Obama's rise actually built bridges.

Peace is handcrafted. It is made every day. Also friendship among people, mutual knowledge, esteem, is handcrafted. It's made every day. Respect the other, say that which one thinks, but with respect, but walk together.

I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

We have to transcend our differences to transform our future.

I get along with people quickly.

Our job... as we take forward this mantle of leadership as a new generation is to ensure that we not only bring our party back together, which has been bruised and battered this week, but that... we bring the parliament back together.

I do hope President Trump's calls for bipartisanship are genuine, and I also hope he takes the actions needed to unify the country.

You need better relationships between the communities and the police, because in some cases, it's not good.But you look at Dallas, where the relationships were really studied, the relationships were really a beautiful thing, and then five police officers were killed one night very violently.

We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.

We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.

I've met so many who have opened doors for me and remained in my life both personally and professionally. After a while, networking doesn't feel like 'networking.' It's both serendipitous and unpredictable, and something that just naturally becomes part of your work life and your personal life.

At a time when many Muslims in this country are living in fear, I want to say loud and clear that as a Christian leader I deeply respect your faith and believe that our common duty is to extend the hand of friendship, and to build bridges not walls.

In this work (peace building), the role of religion is fundamental. It is not possible to build bridges between people while forgetting God, ... But the converse is also true: it is not possible to establish true links with God while ignoring other people. Hence it is important to intensify dialogue among the various religions, and I am thinking particularly of dialogue with Islam.

It's time to put our differences aside and find ways to work together to move Wisconsin forward.

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.

It's nice on the daytime format to focus on things that connect us.

In the 20th century, we built a lot of walls - we endlessly tried to build walls between us and people we perceived, correctly or incorrect, as our enemies. In the 21st century, because of the advent of networks, the free movement of goods and people across the globe, we need to build security by building bridges instead of building walls.