Quotes About Negotiation

It struck Magda as ironic that those who professed to want peace the most were quickest to use bloodshed to try to get their way.

A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.

The boldest of the three moved suddenly, grabbed Angua and pulled her upright. We walk out of here unharmed or the girl gets it, all right? he snarled. Someone sniggered. I hope you're not going to kill anyone, said Carrot. That's up to us! Sorry, was I talking to you? said Carrot.

Well, he thought, so this is diplomacy. It's lying, only for a better class of people.

Gentlemen, please," said the Patrician. He shook his head. "Let's have no fighting, please. This is, after all, a council of war.

His job was to make sense of the world and there were times that he wished the world would meet him halfway.

If you would seek war, prepare for war.'" "I believe, my lord, the saying is 'If you would seek peace, prepare for war,'" Leonard ventured. Vetinari put his head on one side and his lips moved as he repeated the phrase to himself. Finally he said, "No, no. I just don't see that one at all.

It is forbidden to fight on the Killing Ground, he said, and paused while he considered the sense of this. You know what I mean anyway...

You had to stop discussing politics or you would run right into it, causing no damage to anything but yourself.

That's how it goes. Meetings in rooms. A little diplomacy, a little give and take, a promise here, an understanding there. That's how real revolutions happen.

The most successful negotiators understand the other side's concerns and worries as much as their own. But who is more likely to be able to consider and understand the other side's positions so fully—the person who sees others as objects or the person who sees them as people?

We wanted to be certain they didn't have a bigger deficit, and Kennedy agreed with me.

From the moment he took office in January of 1961, Kennedy had been eager to settle the Cuban problem without overt military action by the United States.

TPP is a job killer.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with just a kind word.

My diplomatic position will not consist of going and kneeling down in front of George Bush.

Cher hated 'If I Could Turn Back Time.' I had to beg her, literally, on my knees, just to try it. Happens all the time.

I don't mind knife fights. I just want the knives to come to the front.

The guy who runs Big Day Out doesn't like us for some reason; I don't even know why. We do all the other festivals, and we enquired about it. Who knows, maybe he'll eventually crack, but maybe not. We're just going to keep knocking on his door late at night saying, 'Come on, dude!'

In the end, North Korea's conduct may change only when its leadership does.

I would not say that the North Koreans will do anything that the Chinese want them to do.

We want to have diplomatic engagement with the North Koreans.

I guess I've learned that there's really no such thing as a bad label, there is only a bad contract.

I am in discussions with a label. We are talking about doing something.