#consensus

I come to urge my party to be open to debate and discussion; to move away from a lock-step litmus test which advocates abortion on demand in an effort to reach a broader national consensus. ↗

— Robert Casey

#away #broader #come #consensus #debate

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#constitutes #marriage

Israelis and Palestinians are suspicious of each other and of promises from outside. But the need for a negotiated solution between the parties should not stymie international clarity and consensus about the endgame in terms of borders and other issues. ↗

— David Miliband

#between #borders #clarity #consensus #each

Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support. ↗

— John Negroponte

#consensus #country #does #hard #out

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

— Ward Churchill

#homogeneity #truth

I do not find the supposed scientific consensus among my colleagues. Curiously, it is a feature of man-made global warming that every fact confirms it: rising temperatures or decreasing temperatures. No matter what the weather, some model of global warming offers a watertight explanation. ↗

— Javier Cuadros

#colleagues #confirms #consensus #curiously #decreasing

I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality and commitment to other more constant values as to which there is general consensus. ↗

— Anthony Kennedy

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The reform process began with the historic consensus on the Charter of National Action, in which the Bahraini people decided on a new chapter of their history. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern. ↗

— Daniel Dennett

#completely #concern #consensus #ethical #ever

The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country. ↗

— Howard Fineman

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