Quotes About Consensus

I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates.

I think most fans of movies that have withstood the test of time don't like for them to be tinkered with. I think that's a pretty general consensus. You like to remember what you started with.

It typically takes bipartisan work to build enough consensus to get things through our legislative process.

Sometimes that Dutch consensus approach doesn't move you forward fast enough.

You cannot be successful if you don't bring on consensus.

I read magazines and reviews. If consensus says something is good, I'll get it and see what's going on.

Israelis and Palestinians are suspicious of each other and of promises from outside. But the need for a negotiated solution between the parties should not stymie international clarity and consensus about the endgame in terms of borders and other issues.

It's probably the journalist in me, but I'm naturally suspicious about consensus and always feel an impulse to confront it.

I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis.

We will fight against any pro-nuclear power plan. And we will remind people that a change in the German nuclear consensus would stifle the development of sustainable energy and it would cost jobs. The SPD is the strongest among the opposition parties and we must take on this role with vigour.

That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with training for increased productivity, only makes academe a still more promising environment for a contrarian.

If you're going to start a group, make sure the people you're starting it with are in sync.

Chemists all agree on the fundamental facts of chemistry.

These virtuosi maintained that whatever has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, is likely to be untrue.

Serious disputes are seldom resolved without a genuine change in the parties' thinking. And a false consensus may be more productive of conflict than an honest disagreement.

Recall that people like to do what most people think it is right to do; recall too that people like to do what most people actually do.

People hated to take their disagreements to the President; it was as though a failure to agree somehow reflected badly on each of them, and consensus, rather than clarity, was often the highest goal of the process.

Public judgment is nothing but shared schizophrenia

The message is that people are more likely to agree with you when they have already said something positive.

That's a relief. I hate it when scholars disagree.

I think we should make sure that we are singing from the same hymn sheet, as it were.

The truth is not arrived at by majority vote.

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.