Bipartisan Quote by George Brandis

If we had a consensus we wouldn't have to go to a referendum.

— George Papandreou

The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it

— Lamar Alexander

It typically takes bipartisan work to build enough consensus to get things through our legislative process.

— Todd Young

I am logically in favour of a referendum. It would be the only legitimate way.

— Jacques Chirac

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

— Ambrose Bierce

A referendum is almost always a device by which governments get the voters to endorse what they wanted to do all along.

— Peter Hitchens

To deliver Brexit we need to find a consensus in the party.

— Penny Mordaunt

We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.

— Publilius Syrus

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

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

— Christopher Hitchens

My main worry about referendums is that you are taking a very complicated political question that requires knowledge of a bunch of background facts…

— Jason Brennan

I look for the consensus because the consensus drives the policy into new places.

— Catherine Ashton