Consensus Building Quotes:

President Obama has earned my vote on the basis of his excellent judicial appointments, his consensus-building foreign policy and the improvements he has brought about in the disastrous economy he inherited.

- Alan Dershowitz

topic: Consensus Building, President, Improvement, Judicial

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

- Joe Lieberman

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Leadership, Democracy, Progress, Consensus Building, Proximity

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Consensus Building

That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.

- Harri Holkeri

topic: Ideas, Tables, Sides, Consensus Building

Our country as a whole, no less than the Hastings College of Law, values tolerance, cooperation, learning, and the amicable resolution of conflicts. But we seek to achieve those goals through "[a] confident pluralism that conduces to civil peace and advances democratic consensus-building," not by abridging First Amendment rights.

- Samuel Alito

source: Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, 130 S. Ct. 2971, 3015-16, 2010.

topic: Country, College, Rights, Consensus Building, First Amendment Rights