Catherine Ashton Quotes

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

Catherine Ashton

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• There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Truth
  • Consensus

• One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Policy
  • Tradition
  • Resources

• I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Economic
  • Policy
  • Republicans

• Our policy on the annexation of Crimea, which we consider illegal, will stay.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Will
  • Policy
  • Stay

• For India, the links with the United States/Israel are the centrepiece of its foreign policy.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Policy
  • India
  • United

• There is nothing in ANC policy which calls for attacks on civilians in supermarkets, schools, and cinemas unless these are regarded as military installations.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Military
  • Nothing
  • Policy

• We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Want
  • President
  • Policy

• Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • President
  • Just
  • Policy

• I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Think
  • Policy
  • Cuba

• Certain developments in Russian politics and foreign policy in recent months have given us pause

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Politics
  • Policy
  • Russian

• Robin and I had been good friends for nearly 30 years and that friendship survived our policy disagreements over Iraq, ... He was the greatest parliamentarian of his generation and a very fine foreign secretary. I deeply mourn his loss.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Friendship

• There was no consensus for that proposal, ... It frankly would make negotiations impossible and render your negotiators powerless.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Consensus
  • Negotiations
  • Powerless

• Why is there space rather than no space? Why is space three-dimensional? Why is space big? We have a lot of room to move around in. How come it's not tiny? We have no consensus about these things. We're still exploring them.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Why
  • Space
  • Exploring

• The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Life
  • Powerful
  • States

• I think policy is currently quite accommodative. I think it can remain quite accommodative for a while to come.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Policy
  • Accommodative

• The policies and policy strategies established during the Greenspan years.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Policy
  • Strategies
  • Greenspan

• For the first time in 30 years, Texas manufacturing companies have come together with a singular focus to promote and protect manufacturing jobs in Texas. Manufacturing is central to our state's economic security and its jobs are among the best in our state. Our mission is to advance public policy that promotes these quality jobs for Texans.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Time
  • Together
  • Focus

• Judicial activists are nothing short of radicals in robes--contemptuous of the rule of law, subverting the Constitution at will, and using their public trust to impose their policy preferences on society. In fact, no radical political movement has been more effective in undermining our system of government than the judiciary. And with each Supreme Court term, we hold our collective breath hoping the justices will do no further damage, knowing full well they will disappoint. Such is the nature of judicial tyranny.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Political

• We will move to a low-carbon world because nature will force us, or because policy will guide us. If we wait until nature forces us, the cost will be astronomical.

  

  Christiana Figueres
  • Nature
  • Force
  • Policy

• Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Saying

• Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Government
  • Organization

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

  

  Catherine Ashton
  • Policy
  • Consensus