Quotes About Consensus

There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion.

We've all got to make sure we're all pulling in the same direction. That's what's going to keep us ahead of the ball. As soon as we start getting in the opposite direction, that's when we start getting behind, and the results will start to show.

I know the pundits don't agree with me.

Ayanna Pressley and I would probably vote the exact same way on pretty much every vote we'd have on the floor of the House.

It is possible for political forces to agree.

We can find common ground in agreeing that politics have no room in foreign policy.

After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.

The consensus of the founders was, we don't want no government: we want limited but effective government.

The consensus for a strong, independent Executive arose from the Framers' experience in the Revolution and under the Articles of Confederation. They had seen that the War had almost been lost and was a bumbling enterprise because of the lack of strong Executive leadership.

As for our majority... one is enough.

When two oxen are yoked together, they must pull in the same direction, Marcus. If one pulls to the right, and the other to the left, what happens?

the secret of community lies in suppression of the incompatible.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.

As politics is not subtraction but addition, those who share views and ideas need to join forces and they have to cooperate with political opponents even after they win an election.

The military alone cannot end the conflict in Afghanistan. On that much nearly everyone can agree, offering a rare island of consensus among sides otherwise divided on the question of how and when America's longest-ever war should wind down.

Anybody who tunes into Rush Limabaugh already knows what he's going to say and is already inclined to agree. So it winds up creating tribes.

There is no winner or loser - just one family, the U.M.P. The time for internal squabbles is behind us.

Winning and losing, that's never been my objective. It's my hope that in the fullness of time, the majority of the court will come to see things as I do.

If Quebeckers want Jean Charest, well, they can choose him. It's never a winning formula to divide Quebeckers.

The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor.

The problem with individual opinion is that it doesn't necessary correlate with what the mass audience is thinking.

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.