I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun ...
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
I look for the consensus because the consensus drives the policy into new places.
Life in society requires consensus as an indispensable condition. But consensus, to be productive, requires that each individual contribute independently out of of his experience and insight.
The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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.
This has been the new normal since September 11. Everyone knows, but nobody says, that if something happens again, the elite consensus in this country, and the overwhelming consensus of the citizenry, will be to pitch the Bill of Rights out the windo...
If the breadth of perspectives is wide enough to represent the fullest range of views, consensus is unlikely. If consensus is swiftly achieved, it probably means too few voices have been heard.
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 can...
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
Safe gender is being who and what we want to be when we want to be that, with no threat of censure or violence. Safe gender is going as far in any direction as we wish, With no threat to our health, or anyone else’s. Safe gender is not being pressu...
There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.
The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.
Consensus building doesn't necessarily fit with my experience.
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
A book is as private and consensual as sex.
Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.
Consensus doesn't happen by magic... You have to drive to it.
If we had a consensus we wouldn't have to go to a referendum.
Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.
