“Aren't we supposed to believe that if you are an elected official, if you serve in Congress, you are representing all the people of your district not just the people who voted for you, not [just] the people who you agree with?” PeopleIfsBelieveAgreeCongressOfficialsRepresentingElected Officials Author:David Duke
“I would agree that much with people who accept private property - that conscription is an unpardonable transgression, whether it be "corrupt" or not. The Spanish anarchists opposed conscription during the civil war in Spain as a gross expropriation of property, the most precious property that we have, our own physical beings themselves.” PeopleWarAcceptingAgreePropertyCivil WarSpainGrossAnarchistPrivate PropertyTransgressionConscriptionDuring The Civil War Author:Murray Bookchin
“I agree with those who argue that it is possible to distil from the religions of the world their common values and relevance. As far as I'm concerned I am involved in a complementary process with people who have a moral or spiritual commitment to human rights.” PeopleWorldHumansSpiritualValuesProcessCommonMoralRightsInvolvedCommitmentConcernedAgreeHuman RightsArguingRelevanceComplementary Author:Mary Robinson
“I think another [myth] is that some marriages are just hopeless. This is a common thing I hear from people, "Well, I just think there are some marriages that are hopeless, Dr. Chapman, don't you agree with that?" I say I understand the feeling, but the fact is that there are no marriages that are hopeless.” PeopleThinkingWellsFactsFeelingsCommonAgreeMythHopelessDrsCommon Things Author:Gary Chapman
“I hope I can tell you what happened in Europe and support you in your fight to preserve freedom for your children and your grandchildren, and tell them what I believe the Islamic threat is, and to discuss it with anybody - also people who don't agree with me. This is democracy. This is civil society. We should cherish that.” PeopleShouldBelieveChildrenI CanFightingI BelieveSupportDemocracyHappenedEuropeOur ChildrenAgreeThreatPreservesYour ChildrenIslamicCherishGrandchildrenCivil SocietySupport You Author:Geert Wilders
“When movies tend to start to preach to me, I tend to shut them off, whether I agree with the message or not. I don't think the job of art is to preach, I think it's to ask questions and make people aware of differences and different ways of looking at things. That's what I want to do, anyway. Whether I'm successful or not, that's up to history.” PeopleThinkingWayWantArtDifferentJobsAsksDifferencesSuccessfulMessagesArt IsAgreeDifferent Ways Author:Nick Damici
“I spoke at the University of Georgia, and a whole contingent of Tea Party people in Hell's Angels regalia came in and sat in the front and scowled at me while I gave my talk. And afterwards the head of the group got to the microphone and said, I'm surprised that I agree with almost everything you said, but I'm worried that you're a big government guy.” PeopleSaidWholeBigsGovernmentGuyPartyHellGroupsFrontsAngelAgreeUniversityTeaWorriedSatSpokesGeorgiaTea PartyMicrophonesBig Government Author:Bill Ayers
“People will say you should quit running if you're a slow runner. Or you should quit basketball if you can't dribble with your left hand. I don't agree with that. If you're not a very good reader at 14, nobody thinks you should stop reading.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldHandsRunningReadingLeftReaderBasketballAgreeVery GoodQuittingRunnersLeft HandDribble Author:Timothy Shriver
“The Republican establishment, the Democrat establishment agree and accept that the media is an equal player in the ruling class. Trump has blown all of that out the window. As such, the normal ways that people in politics are controlled, the normal way that people are contained - the ways people are promoted, punished, destroyed, what have you - are all out the window where Trump is concerned. And therefore the media is considered by the ruling class to be one of the great leveling factors.” PeopleWayAcceptingClassPlayerMediaTrumpRepublicanEqualNormalConcernedWindowAgreeDemocratFactorsDestroyedControlledEstablishmentRuling Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Trump is popular, Trump is big precisely because Republican voters are angry at establishment Republicans. And establishment Republicans keep giving these people reason to be mad by continuing to insult them, and by appearing to agree with Democrats on key issues a majority of Americans disagree with, from amnesty to whatever, economics, Obamacare, take your pick.” PeopleGivingReasonBigsIssuesKeysTrumpRepublicanPicksEconomicsAgreeAngryMadMajorityDemocratInsultVotersDisagreeEstablishmentContinuingObamacareAppearingAmnesty Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I don't go looking for phantom statements from people I support. I don't imagine phantom statements because I support them. If they do things that I don't like or don't agree with, my support can go. I mean, my support's not wedded to anybody at all times ever, depending.” PeopleIfsMeanSupportImagineAgreeStatementsAll TimePhantoms Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can't even yet agree on what their laws should be.” PeopleThinkingShouldCountryLawIssuesAgreeWork OutAbortion Author:Melinda Gates
“There's an effort on the part of many people to attack women's rights, women's health, and the ability to control our own lives. No doubt about it. And it is not a majority of the country, in any way, shape, or form. I know on the contraceptive issue, 70 percent of the country agrees with me. Will that stop my opponents? No. Because they are so radical. They chip away and chip away.” PeopleKnowsWayCountryFormAbilityEffortIssuesDoubtRightsShapesPercentAgreeMajorityRadicalOpponentsNo DoubtWomens RightsChipsContraceptivesWomen's Health Author:Barbara Boxer
“I agree with George Washington's concern about parties: They become an end in themselves, rather than being committed to helping people improve their lives.” PeopleEndsHelpingPartyConcernAgreeCommittedHelping People Author:Charles Koch
“If you ask judges, do you always agree on everything? Of course not, we divide just as you do. Why aren't you transparent about it? Because the people would begin to think that the law is not stable, the law is unclear. And that would not give them much faith in the law.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingLawCoursesAsksJudgingAgreeDividesStableTransparentUnclear Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“I respect the second amendment and the right of individuals to own firearms. But I think that we all agree that there are some people who should not be able just to walk in and buy weapons of war.” PeopleThinkingShouldWarAbleIndividualWalksWeaponsAgreeAmendmentsSecond AmendmentFirearms Author:Hillary Clinton
“When I went on Fox News people asked me why I was going on those shows. Are you kidding? You have to go, especially to people you don't agree with.” PeopleShowsNewsAgreeFoxesFox News Author:Naomi Wolf
“Liberals roll their eyes about going on "Oprah" to reach a mass audience by using language that anyone can understand even if you majored in semiotics at Yale. We look down on people we don't agree with. It doesn't serve us well.” PeopleIfsWellsLooksEyeLanguageAudienceMassAgreeYaleSemiotics Author:Naomi Wolf
“There is always the risk in advocating for democracy that the first people to wake up might not be your team, but that is a risk worth taking. I would rather have citizens I don't agree with organized and active than an oligarchy of people that I agree with.” PeopleFirstsMightDemocracyRiskTeamCitizensWake UpAgreeActiveOrganizedAdvocatingOligarchy Author:Naomi Wolf
“In a free country, America, or India, and Japan, and many places, democracy country, free country, but still within the sort of rule of law, some injustice, some sort of problems, some discrimination, and also some sort of scandals or the corruptions. These things, you see, they are always in my mind, I think many people agree, lack of moral principle.” PeopleThinkingMindStillsCountryProblemAmericaLawMoralPrinciplesDemocracyIndiaAgreeInjusticeCorruptionDiscriminationJapanScandalRule Of LawMoral PrinciplesFree Country Author:Dalai Lama
“As recently as the '70s, people were forced to see information that they didn't agree with in newspapers and the like. Now there is so much information you really can build your own walled garden that just has the stuff that reinforces your view. I think it applies to all of us. People are really going into these separate camps, and that's the big social challenge in this age of too much information. How do we crack that and create a common dialogue?” PeopleThinkingBigsAgeSocialStuffChallengesViewsCommonToo MuchInformationGardenAgreeNewspapersDialogueCracksCampsToo Much Information Author:Paul Saffo
“Very often in free speech cases you find yourself defending material that you personally detest, because of course it's no trick to defend the free speech of people you either agree with or who don't particularly upset you. It's when people really upset you that you discover if you believe in free speech or not.” PeopleIfsBelieveCoursesCasesMaterialsSpeechAgreeTricksUpsetFinding YourselfFree SpeechIf You BelieveDetest Author:Salman Rushdie
“If I may make a football analogy, we're a team whether we're a football team or community or the United States of America. We are part of a team and I believe the people on that team have a right, but they also have the obligation if there is something that is not good or we don't agree on, to speak about it.” PeopleIfsBelieveMayStatesAmericaSpeakI BelieveCommunityUnitedUnited StatesTeamFootballAgreeObligationUnited States Of AmericaAnalogiesFootball Team Author:Jim Harbaugh
“It's tough to make music and make it your own, and not have somebody call it something you don't agree with but can't control. Sometimes the press doesn't realize how much power they have and how they can shape somebody's life. I think there's a lot of people just trying to make music and get their art out there, and their heads get f**ked by the press calling them this or calling them that.” PeopleThinkingTryingArtSometimesRealizingCallingShapesToughAgreePressesKeds Author:Jim James
“Now, we're used to thinking of communism as being once-upon-a-time-all-things-were-owned-in-common, maybe-someday-this-will-come-again. And people agree that there is a sort of epic narrative going on here. I think we should just throw this narrative out, it's irrelevant anyway, and who cares who owns things? I don't. You know, we all own the White House. So what? I still can't go in, right?” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldStillsCareUsedHouseWhiteCommonAll ThingsAgreeCommunismNarrativeSomedayWhite HouseEpicIrrelevantWho CaresOnce Upon A TimeMaybe Someday Author:David Graeber
“At a meeting in her office in the late summer of 2002, months before the war in Iraq, prisoner abuse at Guantanamo is discussed. Condoleezza Rice brings in Donald Rumsfeld for a meeting, and they all agree they have to do something. Nothing gets done. Did everybody understand we were going to be as tough as we could be people we thought were Al Qaeda? Is there a better way to get information, get their trust, establish rapport, try to change their views? Nobody wants to think about that. It's just, let's beat them up. And that attitude was widespread throughout the Administration.” PeopleThinkingTryingWarDoneAttitudeOfficeSummerToughAbuseAgreeMeetingsPrisonerRiceAl QaedaRapport Author:Seymour Hersh
“What people generally tell you is, "We'll all agree," and then once you sign, they expect to get their own way. I think it was a bit of a surprise that I was still very headstrong even after signing. I wasn't so happy to get a deal that I would agree to anything. In fact, I disagreed on most things and got my way on most things, which I think was to all of our benefit. But they wanted the record to come out, and I wanted the record to come out, so we had to work together.” PeopleThinkingTogetherAgreeSurpriseMy WayWorking TogetherHeadstrong Author:Nellie McKay
“I was never pop-music taken seriously when I was taught. But some people who agree with you will like your music, and some who don't agree with you will like your music. I think that if you can approach things in a universal fashion and speak rationally about things, then most people do have similar intrinsic values. They don't - or at least they feel that they shouldn't - want other people to suffer. They want a good life for them and their own.” PeopleThinkingSufferingValuesSpeakTakenFashionLike YouAgreeGood Life Author:Nellie McKay
“I might be botching this quote but I agree with the idea that a measure of society is not how it treats its most powerful but how it treats its most vulnerable, including the poor and incarcerated and - I would add to that - the people whose ideas are not currently in favor.” PeoplePoorPowerfulAgreeVulnerableMost Powerful Author:Shepard Fairey
“I agree completely that nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional freedom to pursue their own lives as they wish, and to have their freedom and desire affirmed by the rest of the world. This will happen only when transphobia is overcome at the level of individual attitudes and prejudices and in larger institutions of education, law, health care, and kinship.” PeopleWorldImportantCareDesireIndividualWishAttitudeEnvironmentOvercomingPrejudiceAgreeHealth CareExcellentTransgenderKinship Author:Judith Butler
“People have now been absorbing only that they agree with. You know, part of it is if you're liberal, you consume liberal information. If you're a conservative, you consume conservative information. And there's a certain stridency in both that you know everything, and if somebody doesn't agree with you, you think they don't know what they're talking about, and you become intolerant.” PeopleThinkingAgreeConservative Author:John Kasich
“Sometimes we depersonalize people who we don't agree with or who we see as targets for hatred. If you think of anything as having a mother, that's going to change everything. All of us have mothers and came from a womb. Buddha says you can't hate anything you understand.” PeopleThinkingSometimesMotherHateHatredAgree Author:Measha Brueggergosman
“I completely agree that place is the most emotionally resonant aspect of a story. Our environment affects us every bit as much as our relationships with other people. I love work that recognizes that.” PeopleEnvironmentAgreeOur RelationshipOur Environment Author:Lucy Jane Bledsoe
“I would love it if everybody in America agreed with me on every issue. I can't get my wife to agree with me on every issue, let alone the American people. It's called democracy. That's what it's about.” PeopleDemocracyWifeAgreeMy Wife Author:Bernie Sanders
“Most people will agree that they would like if they were treated by other people based on what they have concretely done in their life, not what other people have done, with their lives. Focusing on being a person instead of an Asian or an anything seems to promote a worldview that encourages people to treat others based on what each person has specifically done in their life, which seems like it would reduce such things as war, racism, unfairness, "hate crimes".” PeopleWarDoneHateCrimeRacismAgreeWorldviewUnfairness Author:Tao Lin
“I hope we can all agree - military might has been one of the ways to deter people from doing bad things. Now, that can take on any number of different aspects, but on this one, I think that we're getting a little too far ahead of ourselves that Trump is changing policy and making policy in a way that he did not intend.” PeopleThinkingDifferentMilitaryPolicyAgree Author:Kellyanne Conway
“If you're always in the company of people who agree with you, you're going to think of people who don't agree with you as venal or stupid. I constantly tell my students that if they're in the company of people who always say "amen" to what you say, find other company. And that is the source of illiberalism, when you are unable to listen to someone who thinks differently. That's when democracies are in trouble.” PeopleThinkingDemocracyTroubleStupidStudentsAgree Author:Condoleezza Rice
“If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to work with people you don't agree with.” PeoplePerspectiveAgreeHistoricalMake Sense Author:Tony Benn
“I would like to see more of a democratic opening on the island of Cuba, things like, I don't know, free press, stop putting people in jail because they do not agree with you politically, stop helping countries like North Korea evade U.N. sanctions, don't invite the Russians to open a military base 90 miles from our shores, allow independent political parties to be able to function.” PeopleCountryHelpingPoliticalPartyMilitaryIndependentAgreeDemocraticPolitical PartiesNorth Korea Author:Marco Rubio
“I'm a big believer in you make your argument to everybody, and you do it in a way that is real and very candid. Even if people don't agree with you, they appreciate that you're telling them what you believe and they know that you care about them. That's I think a very important part of it that sometimes gets missed, is that people will be OK with you saying something they're not totally on-board with as long as they know that you believe it because you want to help them. That means you've got to care about everybody.” PeopleThinkingBelieveMeanLongImportantRealSometimesHelpingCareArgumentAppreciateAgreeBeliever Author:Jason Kander
“About 95% of the people listening to me agree with me. But I can continue to work with half or 30 or 20% of the audience hating me. In fact, one of the things I've had to do psychologically, in order to thrive, I've had to learn how to take being reviled and hated as a sign of success. Most people are not raised - I certainly wasn't - to want to be hated. I can only think maybe one or two people who were. Hitler. Maybe somebody else. Maybe Saddam.” PeopleThinkingHateAudienceListeningAgreeHatedThrive Author:Rush Limbaugh
“See, I am the mayor of Realville, and science is not up to a vote. It either is or isn't. Whatever it is, it is or isn't, but it's not up to a vote. Global warming doesn't exist because a "consequences of scientists" agree. Manmade global warming either is happening or it isn't, but it isn't up to a vote. But it is being presented to you as a consequences of scientists. Therefore, the science is not settled. Besides that, we all know that it's a hoax now. It's just some people don't want to accept that, but it is.” PeopleAcceptingConsequenceVoteScientistAgreeGlobal Warming Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Every religion, Eastern and Western, has the same archetype of benevolent guides in Heaven helping us, whether they are called bodhisattvas, deities, devas, or angels, as they are called by the monotheistic religions of the West. Angels can unite people across religious and spiritual divides. Angels are something we all agree on. Nobody fights about angels.” PeopleHelpingSpiritualFightingHeavenReligiousAngelAgreeWesternEasternBenevolentArchetype Author:Doreen Virtue
“We only now talk to our own, on Facebook and social media we talk to people, we friend and we like and we follow people who agree with us and rather than engaging with people who disagree with us, we unfollow them, we block them, we non-platform them.” PeopleAgreeSocial MediaBlockDisagree Author:Armando Iannucci
“I feel an obligation to those people who are willing to go lay their lives on the line. These are the same people that when we call on them, and we 100 percent agree as a country ... in our lifetime there's gonna be an event take place ... just like when 9/11 happened, everybody wanted to bring them to justice. When we called on the troops, they went in.” PeopleCountryJusticeAgreeLifetimeObligation Author:Toby Keith
“CNN lives in a cocoon, as do all the major media, in which they tell themselves every day that everybody watching agrees with them and that they represent a majority of the people and the thinking in this country. They lie to themselves daily about who their audience is and how large it is and how loyal.” PeopleThinkingCountryLyingAudienceAgreeLoyal Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The so-called resistance is very broad and we don't agree on everything, but there's a moment of opportunity when people are paying attention. It's time for us to really get serious about political education and about our own moral education in this moment, and to seize this opportunity to organize and be in deep dialogue with a whole lot of people who never even thought about being politically engaged or active before. There's real hope there and real opportunity.” PeopleRealMomentsPoliticalOpportunityAttentionMoralSeriousAgreeDialoguePay AttentionOrganize Author:Michelle Alexander
“If we recover something like a functioning, well-informed democratic polity - if it hasn't been wrecked for good by the people who are getting in now, if millennials and teenagers can come to maturity in a world where we hold free and fair elections and agree on what fact is - Lin-Manuel Miranda is going to have a lot to do with that.” PeopleWorldElectionAgreeDemocraticTeenagerMaturityMiranda Author:Stephen Burt
“Different generations and people of different ethnic origins have different views on China. But they all agree on one thing. That is democracy.” PeopleDifferentDemocracyAgree Author:Tsai Ing-wen
“I got elected on a commitment to Canadians that I was going to make growth work for everyone. I was going to focus on the middle class and those working hard to join it. I was going to make sure that the people who felt that the growth in the economy had left them behind would be included. That's similar to the promise that got Trump elected. Now, our approaches to the same problems are somewhat different. But in my conversations with him, we've very much been able to agree that we want to help the citizens of our countries in tangible ways.” PeopleDifferentCountryHelpingProblemGrowthEconomyFocusPromiseCommitmentAgreeMiddle Class Author:Justin Trudeau