Quotes About Negotiation

We're already in a trade war with China. The problem is we've not been fighting back. Trump, through tariffs, wants to call a truce.

We do not mind establishing a long-term truce between us and you.

The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel.

We'd be in his office playing with trucks as a six-year-old while he's negotiating deals with presidents of major companies.

I often have to play a role to get what I want in my life. At the same time, I can't do that without also nourishing who I really am and being aware of my true self and the ways in which I'm not bound by my race or sexual orientation or class or country or whatever.

I find it very easy and good to cooperate with President Donald Trump. Because he's very down to earth, very concrete. He tells me what he wants; he asks me what he can get from us.

Donald Trump will make sure that any agreement with Iran meets the original goals of the U.N and our allies: a non-nuclear Iran.

Disarmament requires trust.

Mediators do not choose the conflicts they became involved in, but the parties to the conflict choose the mediator. Their participation as intermediaries is based on the trust of all the conflicting parties.

Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.

Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this.

Believe it or not, one of the things I try to do around here is try to look for opportunities to work with people across the aisle. I know that's not the common narrative. But the truth is if you want to get anything done, that's an absolute requirement.

The Left is acting like a young child, saying 'I want peace'... A child says 'I want candy right away,' an adult takes all of the factors into account and understands who he's dealing with.

There are only two questions about government. How much do you want? How much can you stand?

All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.

To practice the process of conflict resolution, we must completely abandon the goal of getting people to do what we want.

Don't just give me an advance. I want a percentage.

You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do.

No peace will arrive unless the U.S. or Pakistan want it.

Imagine if the United States, in its war against Hitler, had said to Stalin: we don't want your support until you make your country democratic.

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.