Consensus
Mr. Goh Chok Tong, Prime Minister of Singapore:
- the Government and indeed the whole nation has been distracted from our main goal of building consensus to achieve a vision of a developed, vibrant and creative society
Senator Fulbright
- Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of differences, it is a miscarriage of democratic procedure