Catherine Ashton Quotes

Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.

I'll sign anything except bad legislation.

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

The challenge has been, we make policy in the world of politics.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

We will not change in matters of policy until such time as dialogue has begun.

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.

Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.

I'm going to guess Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, all want clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. I'm sure most people think women should be paid the same as men if they're doing the same job. I think we all want good schools for our kids. If we made that list, we actually are in agreement on more things.

I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.

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

We aren't as divided as we think we are. We're not just Republicans sitting in one corner, and Democrats sitting in the other corner.

Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people.

Things said by political parties are different from the decisions of the government which are taken to uphold the rule of law. The government takes decisions that are best for the country.

It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals.

Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics.

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

You've got to have a theme if you're going to get Congress to do something difficult.

Polls make leadership impossible.

Politics is about power, and it is about group power.

Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.