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Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you -- Ken Livingstone
As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway. -- Gerhard Schroder
My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London. -- Ken Livingstone
NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves. -- Lord Robertson
Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament. -- Shaukat Aziz
We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation. -- Mahmoud Abbas
To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
Our political system needs changing. It needs to move away from personalities and patronage to a system of party programs and consultation with the people. -- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career. -- William Joyce
I have concluded, after consultation with my friends and earnestly seeking counsel of God, to remain at Alton, and here to insist on protection in the exercise of my rights. -- Elijah Parish Lovejoy
During a color consultation, I like to reference food as a visual. Hot fudge and orange marmalade paint a clearer picture and helps prevent end results that leave you feeling unsatisfied. -- Tabatha Coffey
China pays a great deal of attention to the Korean nuclear issue. We stand for achieving denuclearization of the peninsula in a peaceful way through dialogue and consultation to maintain peace and stability of the peninsula and Northeast Asia. -- Hu Jintao
People and organizations other than doctors increasingly are assuming power to decide which medications to prescribe or procedures to undertake. More and more, decisions about personal healthcare are no longer made by the treating physicians in consultation with their patients, and based on the doctors' expertise. -- Bob Barr
There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people to come to grips with the very idea of divorce - or to reconsider the idea. Like a number of my colleagues - not all - I offer that preliminary consultation for free. -- Laura Wasser
All I say about severely disabled babies is that when a life is so miserable it is not worth living, then it is permissible to give it a lethal injection. These are decisions that should be taken by parents - never the state - in consultation with their doctors. -- Peter Singer
So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it! -- Abu Bakar Bashir
I'm not being evasive but I am saying I'm not a scientist and I'm not directly involved in the consultation however the science must be sound, it must be agreed and the consultation must be of a high quality or no one will have any confidence in the process. -- John Anderson
Bike lanes are clearly controversial. And one of the problems with bike lanes - and I'm generally a supporter of bike lanes - but one of the problems with bike lanes has been not the concept of them, which I support, but the way the Department of Transportation has implemented them without consultation with communities and community boards. -- Christine Quinn
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation. -- Demosthenes
We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower. -- Vikram Sarabhai
A consultation process is what some authority sets in motion preparatory to doing what it intended all along. -- Keith Waterhouse
My left descending septal branch artery decided to close without consultation with any of my other organs. It happened on Saint Patrick's Day, 1978. -- George Carlin
There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. -- Ernest Hemingway
Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by study, or consultation with casuists. -- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
There are established processes of consultation between the Government, the parastatals and the trade unions, which have worked in the past. And I don't see any particular reason why they shouldn't work. -- Thabo Mbeki
It is not too farfetched that soon it will be possible for a physician to send the electrocardiogram and the heart sound via communication satellite to a distant heart specialist for diagnosis and consultation. -- Hubertus Strughold
Effective policing relies on the police having the confidence of the communities they serve, and this consultation gives the public an opportunity to contribute to the values and standards they expect of police officers. -- Hazel Blears

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