"By getting the left to sponsor it, I hope we are building a national consensus on the issue."

So far, there is no national consensus on how to pull this off.

In practice, though, it was now much more difficult to achieve a national consensus.

There is a national consensus about the importance of economic independence for Israel.

The Court noted that a "national consensus" had developed against it.

He said that there was "complete national consensus" on this stand.

Second, they want the President to start building a national consensus on what has to be done.

We have not been able to formulate a national consensus about the budget problem.

And for most of American history, the national consensus against discrimination did not exist.

"We lack any kind of national consensus on how to act."