Famous Quotes & Sayings

I would say the consensus is that the Fed goes to a neutral position on inflation.

Greenspan is an orthodox thinker in most ways, but you have give him credit for questioning consensus thinking.

I think it's fair to say that these are difficult issues -- they are difficult moral, ethical, legal issues. And one would not expect that everyone would come to a consensus on this.

When interest rates go up, the utilities don't do so well, and I think there's a developing consensus that they've gone awfully far.

If the parties succeed in reaching a consensus on technical details before the tripartite meeting, a final decision about the project can possibly emerge in that meeting.

A consensus reading is not going to continue to support the dollar.

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.

Silvio Berlusconi

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

Jack Straw

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

There isn't a consensus of exactly what is going on with this deep tremor. There's a lot of unanswered questions.

The report was very confusing. The general consensus feeling is that no one knows what, if anything the Fed is going to do.

Charles Schumer

This is the time for a consensus nominee,

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 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.

It was a very quick and strong consensus for Matt Doherty.

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

Charles Schumer

Now more than ever we need a consensus nominee,

Christine Lagarde

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

Tony Blair

That's why it's important, I think, that as long as it takes -- and maybe it's not possible to reach consensus at the moment -- that there is a reform of the Security Council at some stage.

A lack of consensus is likely to entrench the position of the hard line Sunni nationalists and strengthen their resolve to keep fighting.

Alan Dershowitz

President Obama has earned my vote on the basis of his excellent judicial appointments, his consensus-building foreign policy and the improvements he has brought about in the disastrous economy he inherited.

Natan Sharansky

The prime minister is traveling without trying to make consensus here. I prefer to be with the majority.

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

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.

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.

Jalal Talabani

We should have a consensus between the three groups -- Shiites, Kurds and the Sunnis,