Quotes About Consensus

Typically, the view of party leaders is that primaries are best avoided. Better to coalesce around a consensus candidate early, help that candidate amass a mighty bankroll, and focus the attention of volunteers, activists and other stakeholders on the general election.

If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist.

People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.

I would be open about the fact that, clearly, politicians should be able to speak to each other. David Cameron doesn't seem to accept this, but if the British people have voted then of course you have to try and provide good stable government.

We were put together by the public, they voted for us to be in the band. So we were very much the public's band.

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.

It's hard to be a national punch line unless lots of voters have soured on you.

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

Not every Democratic idea is a good one; not every Republican idea is a bad one.

what we believe is constantly reinforced by people who believe the same thing.

On Twitter we make our own decisions about who deserves obliteration. We form our own consensus, and we aren't being influenced by the criminal justice system or by the media. This makes us formidable.

The consensus from the beginning was that only 1 percent of humans had it, but the chaos they caused was so far-reaching it could actually remold society, remold it all wrong

Europe is, for the most part, a hugger-mugger continent that works best on the consensus of inertia and precedent. Those who have dogmatic and contrarian beliefs can cause disproportionate ructions and ripples in our overcrowded and hierarchical communities.

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

The traditional ijma' consensus is as objectionable to takfir-validating Wahhabis as it is to homosexualist or feminist exegetes.

Although the Mongols dominated Russia for close to two and a half centuries, from 1240 to roughly 1480, there is still no consensus among scholars about the extent to which they influenced the course of Russian

I want to see reunified Korean peninsula, and I believe that the majority of Koreans in both countries want to see Korea become whole again.

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity.

The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.

Every time Burundians sat together, they found lasting solutions to the problems which opposed them

Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ.

While we always strive to reach 218 with Republican votes, sometimes that is not possible with divided government, and the story of a bill that passed with 150 Republican votes is much more positive and assertive than the story of a bill that passes with 79 Republican votes.

We've seen filibusters of bills and nominations that ultimately passed with 90 or more votes. Why filibuster something that has that kind of support? Just to slow down the process and keep the Senate from working.