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.

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 the absence of leadership.

Consensus is something you have if you cannot have agreement.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Consensus is a poor substitute for leadership.

An election is an opportunity for a new consensus.

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.

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

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

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

Put yourself in the shoes of one of these oligarchs who has been given a gift of $10 billion. Russia is in a deep depression. Nobody's investing. There is a widespread political consensus that the way you got your wealth is illegitimate.

Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?

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

Consensus negates leadership.

Consensus demands communication.

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