Quotes About Consensus

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.

I am not a consensus politician... This is something that is really very un-Dutch.

When you poll all of the economists, uh, across America that I think are intellectually honest they would all, or maybe not all, but 95% of them 96% of them would say you know we really have got a powerful economy.

Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.

There's a bit of debate about that; some say it was really Matthew, but the popular consensus is that Mark was the first one, so that's why I did that one first. And I was planning on doing all four.

I'm more the conscience of the conservative than I am someone looking for consensus.

At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very difficult way to sort of manage anything, because convincing everybody to do one particular thing, especially if it was hard, was almost impossible.

Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything.

Computer systems could not work without standards - an agreement among programs and systems about how they will exchange information.

Nebraskans have very strong opinions, but we sit down around a table and we solve our problems.

To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen may have given an impression of a solid and energetic consensus against dictatorship and for democracy, but they were an egotistical and fractious lot, riven by disagreements over tactics and money.

When you look at all of the conservative groups in town and across the country, we all agree on the same things. Where we sometimes get into a disagreement is over the tactics to get to the endpoint.

When you hang the 'bipartisan' tag on something, the perception is that differences have been worked out, and there's a broad agreement that that's the way forward.

I have this idea of a Taiwan Consensus, which means people in Taiwan have to get together and form a consensus of their own and that they turn around to talk to the Chinese to form a cross-strait consensus so we can build a relationship on that consensus. And in my view, that is the right order to do things.

I want to be very honest, that I believe impeachment is a very big step - I believe it is something that should not be taken lightly - and it has to be something where we bring people along.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

The process of forming government in a minority is one where you talk to everyone and see: What do you have in common? And is there enough commonality?

The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.

The great silent majority.

scientific opinion remains essentially mutual; it is established between scientists, not above them.

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.

Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

Prof is right; more than three people can't decide anything.

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.