Consensus Quotes

I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.

Here’s someone who says there’s no such thing, it’s all intelligent design. How sure am I of my own views? Don’t take refuge in the false security of consensus, and the feeling that whatever you think you’re bound to be okay, because you’re in the safely moral majority.

I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician.

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.

There is a growing consensus that Globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital.

Consensus is something you have if you cannot have agreement.

Consensus is the absence of leadership.

Consensus is the negation of leadership.

The art market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

I look for the consensus because the consensus drives the policy into new places.

President Obama has earned my vote on the basis of his excellent judicial appointments, his consensus-building foreign policy and the improvements he has brought about in the disastrous economy he inherited.

The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.

There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.

Time is built entirely on consensus: humans decide that they have linear time, so they do.

Consensus demands communication.

We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.

Consensus is a poor substitute for leadership.

Science is not about consensus, and consensus is not science.

Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?

You pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus.