Quotes About Negotiation

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.

I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.

...there hardly ever existed such a thing as a bad Peace — or a good War...

Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed and war is an extension of those politics.

Fatigue could be the dealmaker's friend.

Nobody is a permanent friend,nobody is a permanent enemy. Everybody has his own self-interest. Once you recognise that, everybody will be better off.

We are the only people on Earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier...while Israel is the only country that calls for defense from its victims.

We were losers. We were baseball players. [Baseball executives] were businessmen. When you went into talk about a contract, they always had the upper hand. No matter if you hit 350 or 250, you were going to get what they wanted you to have.

Respect," he declared, "forms the basis of every negotiation with these powers. The respect which one power has for another, is in the exact proportion of the means which they respectively have of injuring each other with the least detriment to themselves.

In the words of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant: "There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

May God bless and keep all soldiers, young and old, and may that same God open the eyes of all political leaders to the truth that most wars are a confession of failure—the failure of diplomacy and negotiation and common sense and, in most cases, of leadership.

Fighting newspaper editors for the last word was a losing proposition.

A Foreign Secretary is forever poised between the clich

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

Make the loan for thirty thousand dollars," I said.

Fifteen or twenty tired men sitting around a table in a smoke-filled room behind locked doors.

The absence of war is not peace.

When Kansas and Colorado have a quarrel over the water in the Arkansas River they don't call out the National Guard in each state and go to war over it. They bring a suit in the Supreme Court of the United States and abide by the decision. There isn't a reason in the world why we cannot do that internationally.

When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it.

I can be agreeable," said Fairweller. "If the other party is." "Oh,well," said Bramble. "There goes that, then.