Word: consensus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Indeed, the foreign policy views of many industrialists and bankers whose hatred of Roosevelt is still smoldering are now closer to those of Walter Reuther than to the Republican leadership in the Senate. The new consensus on foreign affairs may include some strange bedfellows...
...prophetic gifts, and I shall not attempt to divine the makeup of the new majority and its time of appearance, much less the precise content of its base of agreement. It may be possible, however, to suggest some directions in which we might search for a political consensus appropriate to the challenge which we face, and some of the shifts in the present majority-minority alignment which may be required to produce...
...history has prepared us, in the face of the political, economic, and ideological challenge which is now being generated by Moscow, we shall need to consider our relations with the world from a far broader perspective. Out of this broader perspective we must hope that a new majority consensus will emerge which recognizes the fact that we live in a world that is a community and which is prepared responsibly to support policies flowing from that premise. If this consensus fails to develop for want of communication, or effective leadership, or inadequate political organization, or for whatever reason...
...approach to foreign policy which is at bottom the disease that worries so many observers. It is the failure of our American leadership in political life and out of it to recognize the requirements of our fast changing world, to use our democratic techniques to help form a new consensus appropriate to the new challenge, and to call convincingly on the moral resources of our people...
...efforts to put our own house in even better order and to keep it that way. Hence, to promote a viable free world with freedom having the breadth of definition which it rightfully deserves, we must renew our efforts to make that definition a reality at home. A new consensus based on world recruits for this concept who in a different period clung to a laissez-faire aproach...