There is universal consensus among experts that the earth's atmosphere is heating up - and that we are responsible for it by putting carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. We also know that the consequences of global warming are catastrophic. But how do we make sure that all countries reduce greenhouse gases?

- Eric Maskin

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

- John Negroponte

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

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

- John Major

Up until 'Bridesmaids', the general consensus was that women preferred comedy a bit softer.

- Judd Apatow

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

- John McCain

The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.

- Gary Cooper

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

- George Papandreou

The unraveling of America's long mid-century domestic consensus, which ran from about 1941 to 1966, had begun earlier, under Lyndon B. Johnson.

- Greg Grandin

The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people.

- Eisaku Sato

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

- Abba Eban

Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.

- Eric Alterman

I always admired the tolerance of my family - you know, that they tolerated my dissension for the family consensus.

- Ehud Olmert

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

- David Douglass

More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.

- David Korten

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

- Catherine Ashton

I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates.

- Chuck Grassley

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

- Chuck Schumer

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

- Charles de Lint

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

- Abba Eban