If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.
There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.
If everyone in the party has to agree on everything, that’s going to be a very small party.
There were differences of opinion, but the only opinion that mattered was the President’s opinion.
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
If a majority be united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure.
No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that wish you were on the other side.
We are a unified party.
Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.
You definitely cannot please everyone at all.
Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.
The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.
It is impossible to please all the world
If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.
You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else.
I believe a board in a small startup company should never vote on anything.
The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.
You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.
The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.
I can guarantee you one thing, we will never agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis.
Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.
It is the culture at the Fed [Federal Reserve Board] to seek consensus as distinct from merely recording one's vote.... Unless the chairman has everyone behind him, he can't go very far.
Thousands of people seeing the same thing cannot all be wrong.
