Consensus Quotes

The consensus we arrived with States for amending the Constitution to implement GST is a major breakthrough. This alone has the potential to make India competitive and attractive for investment.

Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never achieve through consensus.

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

[T]he scientific enterprise will never be completely free of mistakes. What is important is that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged.

The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.

Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.

In a way I am saying the nation-state doesn't exist, borders don't exist, you can try going anywhere. It is a kind of pre-Internet consensus I always had in me.

There was a time when everyone thought that Earth was flat. Did this unanimous consensus make any difference to the shape of Earth?

Barack Obama is the kind of guy who likes to do things by inches, he's the kind of guy who likes to build consensus and compromise.

I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is that we're getting a consensus around what needs to be done.

Consensus doesn't happen by magic... You have to drive to it.

I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates.

I'm worried that our technology is helping to bring the long, postwar consensus against fascism to an end.

What is important to me is there has been consensus and clarity, (and) much better coordination. We'll be much quicker to control avian influenza as a result.

There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.

It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place.

It is a necessary precondition for the success of a referendum that there should be broad community consensus and bipartisan support for it.

Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to.

What happens in our lives is not really anybody's fault but our own... When I was in high school, I was in an atheist crowd, and it was the consensus that religion was a crutch.

The consensus is that climate change ranks along with nuclear warfare as the top two risks facing human civilization.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own turf in order to create this common ground.

It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have.

Resist the temptation to ascribe motive, because you really don't know - and it gets in the way of being able to reach a consensus on things that matter to you and to many other people.

Consensus demands communication.

Writing a story, you understand, is not done by consensus. But we do learn from each other, and we remind ourselves how important this work we're doing is.

If you're not exposing yourself to a non-consensus view somehow over the course of a day, you can reject them, but you should expose yourself to them.

The consensus is a very dangerous thing to get complacent about.

There was a time when people thought that if you piled a bunch of mortgages together, the top of the pile was AAA. There are a lot of things that become consensus.

The values derived from religious belief will not - and should not - be accepted as part of the public morality unless they are shared by the pluralistic community at large, by consensus.

An election is an opportunity for a new consensus.

Part of what makes music so interesting is the lack of consensus on just about any given topic.

One topic which often brings liberals and conservatives together in the U.S. is Iran. There is a general consensus that the Revolution was the embodiment of backwardness and barbarism.

There's a general consensus of opinion that people in love are apt to look silly -- except to each other.

I do believe that there's going to be a pretty strong consensus for a very strong .. censure resolution.

Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.

Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.

The best way to reduce emissions and pollution is not through partisan political theater but through developing consensus on areas that will bring about effectual change.

You ever want to know what consensus and groupthink and conventional wisdom in Washington is, just find what David "Rodham" Gergen is saying and you'll find out what 99% of 'em are thinking.

It's a consensus that Trump, as the nominee, guarantees the election of Hillary Clinton. I'll guarantee you there's not a single Donald Trump supporter who thinks that.

The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic

There is growing consensus that new parents need help--information, advice, practical assistance--and that infants and toddlers need stimulation as well as care and nurture.

The future is never clear; you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.

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

Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?

I believe the general consensus is the bigger it is, the more women flock to you. I guess its a good thing mine is HUGE!

We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.

Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear.

Leaders bring things to conclusion, not necessarily consensus.

Jousting with an obvious hoodlum couldn't hurt.