Quotes About Negotiation

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

Diplomacy is seduction in another guise, Mr. Adams. One improves with practice.

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'

The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do in the United Nations is to get a state without giving Israel peace or giving Israel peace and security. And I think that's, that's wrong. That should not succeed. That should, that should fail.

I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.

Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down.

The only peace that can endure is a peace that can be defended.

This is a bad deal — a very bad deal. We're better off without it.

If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.

the art of politics and the idea of cohering interests.

the Molotov walkout" was a watershed. It made it "transparently clear that Russia was not interested in European reconstruction, but in chaos.

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution.

Ralph Bunche

But Germany is a reflective power: even as it adapts, a belief in the importance of restraint, deliberation, and peaceful negotiation will continue to guide its interactions with the rest of the world.

Leaders need to compromise, negotiate with members of both parties and ideologies, and reform health care the right way - by developing a strong plan that encompasses the needs of all Americans.