Quotes About Negotiation

Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.

The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.

When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.

Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.

The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.

At least three viewpoints are identifiable in Arab attitudes: a small, dedicated, but not very vocal group accepting genuine coexistence with Israel and prepared to work for it; a much larger group seeking to destroy Israel by permanent confrontation; and those willing to negotiate with Israel but justifying negotiations, at least domestically, in part as a means to overcome the Jewish state in stages.

Especially when ultimate decisions of peace and war are involved, a strategist must be aware that bluffs may be called and must take into account the impact on his future credibility of an empty threat.

For centuries, the Middle Kingdom had assured its security by playing off distant barbarians against immediate neighbors. Deeply worried about Soviet expansionism, Mao adopted the same strategy in his opening to the United States.

when Germany declared itself ready to discuss an armistice, Wilson refused to negotiate until the Kaiser abdicated.

If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.

they agreed to cede a third of European Russia to German control in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk of 1918.

Whenever peace--conceived as the avoidance of war--has been the primary objective of a power or a group of powers, the international system has been at the mercy of the most ruthless member of the international community.

o equilíbrio de poder precisa de ser reavaliado de tempos a tempos. É ele que desencadeia as guerras cuja dimensão limita.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternising with the enemy.

Relations between China and the United States need not - and should not - become a zero-sum game ... Key issues on the international front are global in nature. Consensus may prove difficult, but confronation on these issues is self-defeating.

Pokud Ã…â"¢ádu nelze dosáhnout obecnou shodou ani jej vnutit silou, pak nelze jinak než jej za cenu katastrof a nelidskostí ukout ze zkuÅ¡enosti chaosu.

Ã…Ëœe?eno slovy Rooseveltova oblíbeného poÃ…â"¢ekadla, Amerika bude "mluvit tiÅ¡e a držet silnou h?l".

At the end of my November 1973 visit, I suggested to Zhou a hotline between Washington and Beijing as part of an agreement on reducing the risks of accidental war.

Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.

They talked about peace, but did not believe in its possibility.

questions which weren't solved by diplomats, would be less solved with powder and blood.

When did anybody ever sell anything without being told immediately after the sale, 'It was worth much more'? But when one wants to sell, no one will give anything….

I don't get involved in record label politics.

I'm a good example of wanting to apologize only for my precise share of a problem--as I calculate it, of course--and I expect my husband Steve to apologize for his share, also as I calculate it. Since we're not always of one mind on the math, it can lead to the theater of the absurd.