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Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus? ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#democracy #leadership #politics #leadership

You can lose your MONEY. You can lose your FRIENDS. You can lose your JOB and you can lose your MARRIAGE...and still recover...as long as there is HOPE. Never lose HOPE. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#central-christian-church #church #inspirational #john-paul #john-paul-warren

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#ambition #corporations #country #extraordinary #founded

I've said for a long time, clearly the - a, a critical key to success in the region is going to be Pakistan and our relationship with Pakistan, which was one that was broken in the late '80s and which we've worked hard to restore. ↗

— Michael Mullen

#clearly #critical #going #hard #i

I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me. ↗

— George Murray

#been #considered #doing #entertained #even

It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board. ↗

— Patrick Lencioni

#teamwork #leadership

Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA. ↗

— Fred Upton

#american consumer #carbon #consumer #cuts #electricity

I want to make it clear publicly that I expect more candor from this Administration during the next four years, particularly with members on the Foreign Relations Committee so that we can maintain a bipartisan foreign policy. ↗

— George Voinovich

#bipartisan #candor #clear #committee #during

A true dreamer is one who knows how to navigate in the dark”. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#church #conferences #john-paul #john-paul-warren #leaders

My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions. ↗

— George Nethercutt

#effectiveness #federal #placed #problems #solutions