Quotes About Negotiation

I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

As human beings, we're powerfully swayed by how much we feel we're being respected. People comply with agreements if they feel they've been treated fairly and lash out if they don't.

If Iran wants their money back and wants to be treated like a normal nation, they need to act like a normal nation.

We need to review treaties to make them reflect our national interest.

They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.

The framework for peace signed by Egypt and Israel is almost a peace treaty. We solved the problem for the peace treaty 98%.

NAFTA is an ancient treaty.

If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three.

As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with other countries, therefore the President regards Japan with peculiar friendliness.

The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries.

After Plan Colombia came the Colombian Free Trade Agreement. Hillary Clinton opposed the treaty when she was running against Barack Obama in 2008 but then supported it as secretary of state.

We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.

The problem with article 50 of the Lisbon treaty is that it is not substantive in its content or conditions, and only concerns itself with procedural requirements.

You can still sit under the tree where Dr. Livingstone negotiated with slave traders to set people free.

My mother negotiated a plea deal, and my father went to trial. I think one thing we notice in their case that kind of stands out is how, in some ways, arbitrary the outcomes in the criminal justice system can be. And they did basically the same thing, identical thing.

Everybody talks about tariffs as the first thing. Tariffs are the last thing. Tariffs are part of the negotiation. The real trick is going to be increase American exports. Get rid of some of the tariff and non-tariff barriers to American exports.

Diplomacy is the art of getting what you want without offending anyone too badly.

Croatia did not want Europe to be divided as to the start of Croatia's EU entry talks.

If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.

Instead of an elegant warning, you need to bring a strong deal. That's the only way you'll gain what you want.