Quotes About Negotiation

The nuclear deal with Iran is fundamentally flawed.

I thought I was going to grow up and become a diplomat and negotiate nuclear arms.

If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?

If you throw obstacles at the relationship with Mexico, you would be shooting yourself in the foot.

If there is no peace in Central America, it will not be because Costa Rica, and myself as president, have not done what is necessary to obtain peace.

Truth be told, in determining what you want and who you want to be with, you will be compromising in certain areas. It can be in the area of appearance or occupation or maybe even certain personality characteristics, but no one person can have everything.

So the whole war is beause we can't talk to each other.

He was always just mad enough to take treaties seriously. Honor, you know. I don't have any.

Better to give the man what he wanted and save the objections for the battles worth fighting.

I had forgotten the first rule of diplomacy: Russians are never more cooperative than when they are about to betray you.

I hate it when you 'deal' with me." "OK, what if I 'handle' you instead?

I think Russia agreed to it because they're facing a revolt of the Islamic States.

In 1974, Mahmoud Darwish wrote Yasser Arafat's speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations: Today I have come bearing an olive branch in one hand and a freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. 346 I repeat: do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

I think I'll buy you from your father so you can say nice things like that to me three times a day. How much for her, Mo?

As they sat, Kathy de Bourgh smiled and said, "Now that we've both apologized within the first thirty seconds of our conversation about women and power, shall we begin?

She held her right hand out to Elske, as if they were two merchants closing on a sale, and she bowed her head to Elske, as if they were two swordsmen ending a match, and she looked Elske in the eye, as if they were Wolfer captains, about to risk their lives in battle.

I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument— and that is to avoid it. Avoid it as you would avoid rattlesnakes and earthquakes.

By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

The only way I can get you to do anything is by giving you what you want.

PRINCIPLE 1 The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. PRINCIPLE 2 Show respect for the other person's opinions. Never say, "You're wrong." PRINCIPLE 3 If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically. PRINCIPLE 4 Begin in a friendly way. PRINCIPLE 5 Get the other person saying "yes, yes" immediately. PRINCIPLE 6 Let the other person do a great deal of the talking. PRINCIPLE 7 Let the other person feel that the idea

Always avoid the acute angle.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

the only way to influence people is to talk in terms of what the other person wants.