#consensus

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#being #consensus #had #hear #other

Israelis and Palestinians are suspicious of each other and of promises from outside. But the need for a negotiated solution between the parties should not stymie international clarity and consensus about the endgame in terms of borders and other issues. ↗

— David Miliband

#between #borders #clarity #consensus #each

Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support. ↗

— John Negroponte

#consensus #country #does #hard #out

I do not find the supposed scientific consensus among my colleagues. Curiously, it is a feature of man-made global warming that every fact confirms it: rising temperatures or decreasing temperatures. No matter what the weather, some model of global warming offers a watertight explanation. ↗

— Javier Cuadros

#colleagues #confirms #consensus #curiously #decreasing

America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#come #consensus #place #together #where

The president does not have any obligation to make a consensus appointment here. What the president's obligation is, is to pick a judicial conservative, and I believe that's what he's gonna do. ↗

— Jay Alan Sekulow

#appointment #believe #consensus #conservative #does

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. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#american public #approach #big #bring #buys

There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America. ↗

— Rafael Correa

#america #been #century #consensus #foreign

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern. ↗

— Daniel Dennett

#completely #concern #consensus #ethical #ever

Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and could not comprehend that such an assessment—which would yield a monstrous toll if accurately conducted on a global scale—might perhaps be a proper task in the United States. At the same level of integrity, disciplined Soviet intellectuals are horrified over real or alleged American crimes, but perceive their own only as benevolent intent gone awry, or errors of an earlier day, now overcome; the comparison is inexact and unfair, since Soviet intellectuals can plead fear as an excuse for their services to state violence. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#consensus #fear #hypocrisy #intellectuals #international-law