"It has come into the public consciousness much more than I could have ever expected."

He was alone in the cell, but a face came up into his consciousness.

At a certain point, ideas simply enter into the public consciousness.

"It's the first time we've reached into the public consciousness at that level."

Another thought thrust itself into his consciousness all of a moment.

In fact, a lot came flooding back into his consciousness.

He did not want to have things dragged into consciousness.

Over the next two decades, he worked - often alone - to drive this idea into public consciousness.

But the major result has not sunk into the consciousness of Congress, press or public.

Or will the 21st century begin by stepping back into the 19th-century consciousness where "might makes right"?