Quotes About Negotiation

Tell the Vietnamese they've got to draw in their horns or we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Come now, let us reason together.

We still seek no wider war.

But in a compromise, both people need to sacrifice something for the sake of the other person, and hopefully they'll both be happy with the outcome in the end. You're giving up being a pastor, but I'm not sure what exactly Caroline will be giving up.

If she takes me to task over this, shall I tell her you attacked the trees?" "We had no treaty with the forest," Saruel replied serenely.

My counselor says, "Adults inform, children explain." I will state my boundaries with compassion and clarity. But I will not negotiate excuses or navigate exceptions with lengthy explanations that wear me down emotionally.

The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.

It's beginning to sound like the part we play is 'mediator'," Vasiht'h said, the mindline tacky with the memory of embarrassment, like something spilled and left without cleaning. "Goddess knows I've untangled enough squabbles in my family to know sometimes what you really need is a third party to translate.

Staying with people consists in your not having your own way, and their not having theirs.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields.

If diplomacy is the art of persuading others to act as we would wish, effective foreign policy requires that we comprehend why others act as they do

The purpose of foreign policy is to influence the policies and actions of other nations in a way that serves your interests and values. The tools available include everything from kind words to cruise missiles. Mixing them properly and with sufficient patience is the art of diplomacy.

I TELL MY STUDENTS THAT THE FUNDAMENTAL PURPOSE OF FOREIGN policy is elementary: to convince other countries to do what we would like them to do.

When Hitler pressed him for a commitment, he replied with questions. Asked to moderate his demands, he repeated them.

It sounded sort of strange, but I guess I believed you. You said if X has something valuable and Y comes along and takes it away from him, and there is absolutely no way in the world X can ever get it back, then you come along and make a deal with X to get it back, and keep half. Then you just Ã¢â'¬Â¦ live on that until it starts to run out. Is that the way it is, really?

We cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable. [ The Berlin Crisis: Radio and Television Address to the American People (The White House, July 25, 1961)]

Peace is a process - a way of solving problems.

Que nunca negociemos por medo, mas que jamais tenhamos medo de negociar.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

It is compromise that prevents each set of reformers from crushing the group at the other end of the political spectrum.

Any lawyer worth his salt knew the first offer had to be rejected.