Deliberative Quotes

#1. No deliberative body is manifestly less qualified to make decisions about public education than our state Legislature. With a few shining exceptions, most of these clowns don't read, can't write, and clearly can't add.

Carl Hiaasen

#2. For all its shortcomings, Wikipedia does have strong governance and deliberative mechanisms; anyone who has ever followed discussions on Wikipedia's mailing lists will confirm that its moderators and administrators openly discuss controversial issues on a regular basis.

Evgeny Morozov

#3. The matters most debated in a deliberative body tend to be the minor ones where everybody understands the issues.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#4. Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.

George P. Shultz

#5. The Senate is indeed a deliberative body, and that quality serves the nation well. A slow-moving government helps us maintain a stable government. But slow moving is not the same as immobile.

John C. Danforth

#6. One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved.

Bill Nelson

#7. PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo."

Ambrose Bierce

#8. If the Senate is the world's greatest deliberative body, the House is poised to be the world's greatest tweeting one.

Ruth Marcus

#9. We are often in society told to make decisions in one of two ways. We're either told "Use your gut, just go with how you feel about it and let that guide you," or we're told to use reason - some very deliberative methodical process of pros and cons and really thinking it through.

Sheena Iyengar

#10. The more you multitask, the less deliberative you become; the less able to think and reason out a problem.

Nicholas Carr

#11. Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#12. In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

John Rawls

#13. The Founders of the U.S. gave the senators a term of office three times longer than that of a representative precisely to encourage a reflective frame of mind, a distance from the passions of the voters, and a capacity for deliberative consideration.

Al Gore

#14. QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.

Ambrose Bierce

#15. A strong and variegated publishing environment helps create deliberative, reflective societies. Publishing

Michael Bhaskar

#16. The deliberative sense of the community should govern.

Alexander Hamilton

#17. The future regulatory arrangements for the newspaper industry need to be done in a much calmer deliberative way, in slower time when we've got beyond this media firestorm.

Thomas Watson Jr.

#18. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be any more

Jane Austen

#19. In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension.

Horatio Greenough

#20. government is legitimate not so much because it represents the 'general will', but because its policies are, ideally and counterfactually, the result of the public deliberation of all who are concerned by the decision

Frederic Vandenberghe

#21. I like information. I love when smart people make me think of something in a new way.

Terry Francona

#22. Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.

Brian Jacques

#23. People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in them a pleasant propensity toward the lesser sins, a pleasing readiness also to admit the possibility that on occasion they may be in the wrong
they may be mistaken.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

#24. Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.

Patricia Ireland