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.
  • Tradition
  • Policy
  • 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

• I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same.

  

  Mohammed Omar
  • Struggle
  • Forget
  • Patient

• If someone tells you that George Bush is not the 43rd president of the United States, they might be engaged in wishful thinking, or denial, but if they make that claim, it's either true or false! And you can assess that, regardless of whether there's an omniscient narrator, or an unreliable narrator, or it's shot in vérité, or it's manipulated, it's agitprop, whatever! It makes no difference! It's a style!

  

  Errol Morris
  • Thinking
  • Regardless
  • Narrator

• He who flees at the right time can fight again.

  

  Marcus Terentius Varro
  • Time
  • Fight
  • Flees

• I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Beautiful
  • Eternal
  • Disorder

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

  

  Catherine Ashton
  • Policy
  • Consensus