#mm

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#any #collapse #communist #democracy #despite

There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#day #foreign #foreign policy #must #ourselves

Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication I've ever seen. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#communication #ever #example #i #lot

Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#communication #complement #each #ideology #into

I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#cannot #care #ceos #communication #corporate

Politics is gut; commercials are gut. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#gut #politics

The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#committee #could #eye #hired #look

The way you communicate an idea is different than the way you communicate a product. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#communicate #different #idea #product #than

There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#american people #anger #believe #communication #disappointment

When I started in this business, everybody said the Democrats were the better communicators because they sounded like social workers, and Republicans were awful because they sounded like morticians. In some cases. they actually dressed like morticians. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#awful #because #better #business #cases