Quotes About Consensus

If the academic community gets its way, we will soon all be speaking with a single voice.

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.

That's where my job comes in. Getting the E.U. and U.S. to agree.

You don't have to agree with my vote, but you need to at least understand how I came to my vote.

My husband has always agreed with me philosophically.

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

If everyone likes it, it's probably because it has been doing well. Most people seem to think that outstanding performance to dates presages outstanding future performance. Actually, it's more likely that outstanding future performance to date has borrowed from the future and thus presages subpar performance from her on out.

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration.

Cuando tienes un principio con el que están todos de acuerdo, obtienes lo que es el comienzo de la complacencia y el deterioro.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

From the vantage of a mid-1970's consensus that regarded the United States as having entered a post-Protestant era, the rise of a Religious Right dominated not only by Protestants but by fundamentalists was not the way the story was supposed to go. People like Jerry Falwell looked like party crashers who, rather than slikinking from bar to buffet in hopes of going unnoticed, demanded that the vegetarian, alcohol-imbibing hosts serve meat and tell the bartender to go home.

When you read something, it's a movie in your mind and such a personal experience. What we're trying to do is to bring a consensus version of that to life and make as many people happy as we can.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

Heck, nobody gets along perfectly. But what we have is respect for one another. We have a system where one guy can veto anything.

There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America.

It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.

The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.

Reading 'Blood Will Out,' one begins to understand how so many people were duped by Clark Rockefeller. All the imposter needs is some kind of initial agreement that he is who he says he is; thereafter, consensus builds via a network of human relationships.

One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation. He appointed Republican Secretaries of Defense, the Army and Transportation. He appointed a Vice President who ran against him in 2008.

In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development.

'The Scarlet Gospels' does, by general consensus, seem to mark a new high - or low, depending on your point of view - in its excessiveness, in its extremities.

I approve, as I'm sire the rest of the female population does.

Remember, consensus is not a decision-making strategy. In fact, it is the opposite. It's a technique to avoid making difficult choices.