National Consensus Quotes

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

I disagree with what the majority of the American people want.

Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.

No foreign policy will stick unless the American people are behind it. And unless Congress understands it the American people aren't going to understand it.

To engage all sides of Parliament in a common national cause is not unpatriotic.

I think I'm in the majority of Americans. I believe that I am in the mainstream of middle America.

We don't go to war on narrow, partisan votes.

This is our bottom line, and the will of 1.25 billion Chinese people.

Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate.

One needs to place the spotlight more on vulnerable groups of the population such as minorities, indigenous populations, migrants, and historically disadvantaged communities. Placing the spotlight on them brings their plight to the fore and enables the forging of a national consensus to act for their relief and protection.

The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people.

The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.

I think that the important thing to know is, which is great about this country [the USA], when it comes to domestic issues, we all battle it out and fight it between the parties and all those kind of things to get things done, but when it comes to foreign issues, overseas kind of things, then we all speak with one voice.

There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.

There is a national consensus building here that drugs are doing a great deal of damage to the Bolivian society.

The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that is to bring consensus to big issues in this country so that we have a reasoned and thoughtful approach and that the American public buys into it.

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.

I am not retiring until every American agrees with me, and there's some work still to be done on this.

The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the legitimacy of the war became a major domestic issue, with some people arguing that withdrawal was the only legitimate objective.

If I'm the president, I will call in all the different political opinions to come together and to make one front to the benefit of Mexico.

It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.

There was a general consensus to go for the nuclear test. The whole nation wanted it, and it was done properly.

Americans disagree about America because the most common consensus as to what America is or has ever been or ever was meant to be eludes us, and it eludes us because we want it to.

Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to the awareness that in foreign policy we are all engaged in a common national endeavor.