Consensus Building Quotes

• 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.

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  Samuel Alito

  Country   College   Rights  

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

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• 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.

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  Alan Dershowitz

  Consensus Building   President   Improvement  

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• 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.

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  Joe Lieberman

  Leadership   Consensus Building   Democracy  

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

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  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking   Consensus Building   Meant To Be  

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• 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.

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  Harri Holkeri

  Consensus Building   Ideas   Tables  

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