At the housing conference, Orr called for challenging conversations and new ideas, including a potential move away from arms-length management organisations to what he called "proper municipal housing companies".
Abbott also called for "a conversation rather than a scare campaign" when debating the big issues.
The G.O.P. budget guru, Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, also called for a "conversation" in a specifics-deficient op-ed manifesto in The Financial Times last week.
In their wisdom, they created a system of government that called for constant conversation and compromise among competing interests — what Alexander Hamilton called the "jarring of parties".
Asked on his tour what should happen to the Ninth Ward now, he called for "a conversation" about whether anyone should "rebuild it, tear it down, you know, whatever it is".
Instead, he called for a "conversation about a comprehensive strategy" to "reduce the wellsprings" of radicalism, one that uses not just hard power but soft power, such as foreign aid, education, and support for transitions to democracy in the Arab world and peace in the Middle East: Our systematic effort to dismantle terrorist organizations must continue… But this war, like all wars, must end.
At a BBC debate, Russ Timpson called for a conversation about how many people could live "on this island".
This hope rose when in a press conference on November 14th 2012 you called for "a conversation across the country... .. to see "how we can shape an agenda that garners bipartisan support and helps move this agenda forward... and... be an international leader" on climate change.
We all need to be proactive (in moving America forward)." Michael Eric Dyson, a professor at Georgetown University and the biographer of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., called for "honest conversation about race" so that Americans can "push our country to one day when we will be one nation".
Two months later his successor, Jack Straw, called for a "national conversation" about the use of custody.
