3 December 2020 Frank Luntz 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.
3 December 2020 Frank Luntz 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.
3 December 2020 Frank Luntz 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.
3 December 2020 Frank Luntz The way you communicate an idea is different than the way you communicate a product.
3 December 2020 Frank Luntz What matters most in politics is personality. It’s not issues it’s not image. It’s who you are and what you represent.
3 December 2020 Frank Luntz 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.
3 December 2020 Frank Luntz I’ve done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.
3 December 2020 Frank Luntz Some people call it global warming some people call it climate change. What is the difference?
3 December 2020 Frank Luntz Sound science must be our guide in choosing which problems to tackle and how to approach them.
3 December 2020 Frank Luntz The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you’re working for a political party, is that everyone’s a messenger.
3 December 2020 Frank Luntz The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to my friends on the Republican side, Bill Clinton is the best communicator of the last 50 years. He felt your pain.
