Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Schumer

Now more than ever we need a consensus nominee,

They use these games to create a fun atmosphere, but also to reach a consensus on people's wishes and needs.

Silvio Berlusconi

This can happen only if there is wide consensus and wide support for reform.

Already, the market consensus is for inflation to fall. We are expecting that too.

They made the consensus numbers even after taking that charge. The stock has already been pummeled in the last few years. I think with all things taken into account, the earnings were a little better than expected.

They made the consensus numbers even after taking that charge, ... The stock has already been pummeled in the last few years. I think with all things taken into account, the earnings were a little better than expected.

This is the most comprehensive public opinion poll ever done. There is not a consensus nationwide about immigration or a consensus about what to do about it.

There seems to be a strong consensus that the Fed isn't going to do anything.

There seems to be a consensus that there will be plenty to meet the expected demand.

There's consensus the market will keep an upside trend in the long run. The focus is how quickly the key index can top 1,300 and after that it may head north more easily.

there is such tremendous consensus in the markets that the Federal Reserve will not move rates.

There has been a consensus that this is something we need to do.

Gary Johnson

Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

Anecdotes, including purchasing manager surveys and regional and national Fed indices, do little to support the consensus view of a 210,000 gain. Moreover, the market has a tendency to overestimate November payrolls.

Earnings are supposed to be up 10 percent by the second quarter of 2002 if you look at the consensus numbers, ... But our guess is that they'll be down about 10 percent by the second quarter of 2002.

Essentially traders can't seem to come to a consensus this week over the state of the US economy and this is leaving markets in a somewhat volatile state.

Ron James

(Ferraro) has a model of what he wants, and either I fit into that model or I don't. When the season ends, we'll come to a consensus if we're heading in the right direction or the wrong direction.

Our consensus is that it would be inappropriate after the deadline had passed.

The questions reveal widespread doubts about the country's current course. But there is no consensus on which direction to take.

Everyone wants to get through the Fed with the affirmation. The consensus in the marketplace is no move out of the Fed and I do think that's been priced into the market.

At the chancellery, he is someone who never pushed himself into the foreground or sought the media spotlight but tried to get positions with consensus from the various ministries.

Constitutions can do two things for you. When you have a fundamental consensus they can codify it and enforce it. The second thing is that the process can be more important than the product; the process of getting all the sides sitting down and talking can be healthy.

Don't run the consensus up, especially not in the first quarter.

The season started upbeat and that was terrific. That helps the overall consensus that the second quarter (reports) will be rosier.

Christine Lagarde

There will not be consensus and there will not be major progress (in Hong Kong),

The scientific consensus is that the end of continuous ice in the summer months is within the human horizon 50 years, 70 years, 30 years. In recorded history, we've never had that, so this is a new era. It will have enormous consequences.

Paul Tagliabue

I've spoken to many owners already, and I think there's a really strong consensus that what is needed is a pretty effective leader and someone who can be around for a good, long period of time. Whatever differences people have on specific issues will be pretty well submerged as they try to find the right type of talent to lead thee organization.

There's more consensus . . . within the economics profession about how the world works than there was in the 1950s, '60s and '70s.

The resolution is unacceptable and illegal. The Europeans evenfailed to get a consensus on it.

We've come up with what I submit to you is a consensus proposal.

There's getting to be a general consensus that what is good for your heart is good for your brain.

Michael Shifter

There's no consensus on how to move forward.

Harri Holkeri

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.