Quotes About Negotiation

The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.

If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em.

If she has six good points and you have one semigood little point, place all of the emphasis on your one semigood little point.

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.

When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.

We may soon find that peace is made possible not through negotiation but through innovation.

If we give in to the hijackers' demands and release terrorists," I said during one of the heated government meetings over the coming week, "everyone will understand us, but no one will respect us." Yet the opposite—however grim the results—held: "If, on the other hand, we conduct a military operation to free hostages, it is possible that no one will understand us—but everyone will respect us.

Peace is a purpose—a goal worthy of the chase, while war is a function—born out of reluctant necessity.

we will need to release terrorists," I wrote one night during the coming drama, "Israel will look like a rag, and even worse, she will be one.

We are not interested in dialogue for the sake of dialogue.

Because there is a problem that exists, the doors for communication between the two nations should not be closed. Japan always keeps our door for communication open. I'd like China to take the same attitude.

Some fine men are in Congress, too few, trying to do a responsible job. But they are surrounded and almost neutralized by a greater number whose instinct is to make a deal before they make a decision.

I learned a long time ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and besides, the pig likes it.

In complex systems, after all, it is very hard to foresee or predict the consequences of presumed causes. So it is not the consequences that we should be afraid of (we might not even foresee them or believe them if we could). Rather, we should be weary of renaming things that negotiate their perceived risk down from what it was before.

We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.

War is the remedy for peace.

Every international at Lyon is untransferable. Until the offer surpasses by far the amount we had expected.

The war could not be won – but could it be ended with honour?

The only man to shake hands with Lenin, Hitler, Himmler, Göring, Roosevelt and Churchill, Molotov was Stalin's closest ally. Nicknamed "Stone-Arse" for his indefatigable work rate, Molotov liked to correct people ponderously and tell

Ryanair had managed to strike a deal on eleven Boeing 737 aircraft that were all ten years old and had to put down $20m from its own coffers as a one-third deposit on the finance lease. The rest was to be paid off over the next five years with bank loans from New York, leaving the airline with fairly modest cash reserves. Ryanair,

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.

In Slaka, sex is just politics with the clothes off.

Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.