Quotes About Consensus

Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification, not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Democracy is a festival of mediocrity.

Forty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

If you go about trying to please everyone, there's going to be endless struggles.

My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.

There is no future for Tunisia without consensus among political parties and members of civil society.

Every American, whether Democrat or Republican, agrees that job creation and affordable energy will be crucial to our economic turnaround.

I want to develop an atmosphere where the selectors, captain, and coach are on the same page because, unless this happens, there will be no turnaround in our cricket.

The market turns out to be just one special case of collective decision-making.

Any politician who is not a unifier is not somebody that I want to be for.

People can make arguments from the Bible if they want to. But I want them to see that they should also give arguments that all reasonable citizens might agree to.

Compromise is what it's got to be all about when you're governing, because no one is ever going to have a big enough majority to just do what they want to do all the time.

There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.

We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

They will come up with a plan. No one will like it. Everyone will feel they have been treated unfairly, but will be happy that their neighbors feel the same. And that is the nature of compromise.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original.

With the White Sox, when we do stuff, everybody's opinion is asked for, is given and then decisions are made on just about everything.