#consensus

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

#barack obama #behalf #brutish #building #campaign

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

— Chuck Grassley

#bipartisan #consensus #i #i believe #i believe that

After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children. ↗

— Herb Kohl

#amendment #away #back #children #common-sense

Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works. ↗

— Larisa Oleynik

#being #business #college #consensus #everyone

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

— David Douglass

#consensus #had #history #indeed #scientific

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#consensus #genuine #leader #searcher

More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation. ↗

— David Korten

#cooperation #countries #easier #holland #humane

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#britain #consensus #economic #essentially #labour

Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported. ↗

— Paul Berg

#approach #consensus #developing #discussion #effort

There's a bit of debate about that; some say it was really Matthew, but the popular consensus is that Mark was the first one, so that's why I did that one first. And I was planning on doing all four. ↗

— Chester Brown

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