Law Quote by Erin O'Toole

“If there is no way to compel those who find a majority decision distasteful to go along with it, then the last thing one…

— David Graeber

“The democratic system cannot be operated without effective opposition. For, in making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion,…

— Walter Lippmann

I would in fact tend to have more confidence in the outcome of a democratic decision if there was a minority that voted against…

— Jurgen Habermas

There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in…

— Rafael Correa

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

— Harry Belafonte

In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should…

— Walter Lippmann

People all over this country are shouting at each other. And what we need to do is bring people together to work on the…

— Bernie Sanders

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

— Anonymous

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

— Christopher Hitchens

Bills ought to be passed with deliberation by committees. Change should be achieved in a bipartisan manner. Incrementally, day by day, we should reach…

— Alexandra Petri

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to…

— Hillary Clinton

You have to deal with the reality that in the political process, people are going to vote based on what they're hearing from their…

— Marco Rubio