That's when the vast consensus of the world's climatologists, brought together by the UN and The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, really… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The Obama administration's attempted short-term fixes, even with unprecedented monetary easing by the Federal Reserve, produced average GDP growth of just 2.2%… — Glenn Hubbard Copy Share Image
There was a conservative consensus for an amendment I put forward called Trust, But Verify that would have strengthened border security on… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I think the consensus among our generation and people younger than us is that we do have a defining challenge in the… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
How do I know that I know this, except that I've always been taught this and never heard anything else? [...] How… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think that there is a bipartisan consensus that's incorrect that we should have the whole world be in NATO. For example,… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
To enable consensus politics to develop we need to empower people where they live. This means devolving financial resources and political power… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
I like films that don't have that unonimity of a response; that don't have consensus in the audience. What it is essentially… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I talked on my blog recently about "uncommon sense." Common sense is called "common" because it reflects cultural consensus. It's common sense… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
I'd like something that faces reality. We have 12 million people in this country that are undocumented - that's a reality. It's… — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
We have found that companies need to speak a common language, because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
What happens from about 1954 to the late 1980s, is that we see a huge wave of optimism that school desegregation is… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
We will fight against any pro-nuclear power plan. And we will remind people that a change in the German nuclear consensus would… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you… — Lawrence Halprin Copy Share Image
It is a generally received opinion that there are too many books in the world already. I cannot, however, subscribe to any… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Globalization makes our economy, our health, and our security all captive to events on the other side of the world. And no… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In Ukraine, there has never been a consensus behind NATO membership. Even Yulia Tymoshenko was noncommittal when she was still prime minister.… — Heinrich August Winkler Copy Share Image
The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Put yourself in the shoes of one of these oligarchs who has been given a gift of $10 billion. Russia is in… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
One of the greatest investments of our lifetime has been New York City real estate, and investors made the highest returns when… — Mary Meeker Copy Share Image
Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
The young earth-solution to reconciling the order of creation with natural history makes good exegetical and theological sense. Indeed, the overwhelming consensus… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
There is some consensus: There's obsession, there's never satiety, and there's always remorse. For me, the big thing is that you're always… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
Greece is at a crucial crossroads. The choices that are made and the policies that are enforced will have a decisive impact… — Lucas Papademos Copy Share Image
Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.' One will be hard put to find… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Many people have the impression that there is significant scientific disagreement about global climate change. It's time to lay that misapprehension to… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
It is true that we need a consensus to go forward with restoring passenger rail in America, and often a consensus is… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
The lack of crispness comes significantly from a societal change in what's valued: a replacement of bold individual initiative with collaboration, consensus,… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
Do not tell me that I have not shown courage in standing up to the gun people, in voting to ban assault… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
In any event, it has never been true that we ignore mainstream science; and anyone who reads AEI publications closely can see… — Steven F. Hayward Copy Share Image
It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
When I was really young, I was reluctant to be perceived as bossy, and I thought that working with an ensemble was… — Liza Johnson Copy Share Image
For the moment, machines able to 'think' in anything approaching a human sense remain science-fiction. How we should prepare for their potential… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
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