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• A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn’t believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

  John Major

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• Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is – sometimes. But more often what it signifies is that there are no respected processes for surfacing concerns and dissent.

  Margaret Heffernan

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• You can never solve a problem without talking to people with whom you disagree. The United States Senate is predicated and based on consensus building. That was certainly the vision of the founding fathers.

  Olympia Snowe

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• The general consensus seems to be that I don’t act at all.

  Frank James Cooper

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• If we had a consensus we wouldn’t have to go to a referendum.

  Georgios A. Papandreou

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

  Chuck Grassley

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• Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public.

  Ron Fournier

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• Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It’s a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.

  Gale Norton

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• A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what’s real and what’s not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

  Charles de Lint

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• The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people.

  Eisaku Sato

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

  Ward Churchill

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• Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations – a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency – without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.

  Eric Alterman

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• A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

  Abba Eban

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• Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

  Abba Eban

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

  Rem Koolhaas

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• A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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• In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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• It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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• 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.

  Rafael Correa

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• But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

  Colin Luther Powell

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