Quotes About Negotiation

Perhaps it sounds awfully simplistic, but I have often thought how much better off our country would be if sometimes we left the Washington bureaucrats at home and let a group of common sense, everyday men and women-farmers, bankers, factory workers, small business owners, school teachers, ranchers, etc.-negotiate on behalf of the United States. Certainly they could do no worse, and personally I'm confident-because of their COMMON SENSE-they would do much better.

the ingredients for the best political donnybrook

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.

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

Sometimes ... when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face. (Following summit meeting with Ronald Reagan)

congressman was a hog that could understand only a blow on the snout.

We are de facto diplomats who have to be able to communicate with anyone. But this doesn't mean we are doormats.

What do you need to give me what I need?"... You're negotiating with your teenager not because you're a wimp, or because you're afraid of her, or because you don't care. No, you're negotiating with your teenager because imposing rules makes bad relationships worse, while negotiating solutions makes good relationships better.

Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.

Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.

I bet your mom would let me." -Pigeon, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus-

Well, first of all, we now have everybody with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Israel, and I don't think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive, in terms of technology.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.

A world where players have enough power to block everyone else's initiatives but no one has the power to impose its preferred course of action is a world where decisions are not taken, taken too late, or watered down to the point of ineffectiveness.

La política siempre ha sido el arte del compromiso, pero ahora parece haberse convertido en el arte de impedir que se logren acuerdos.

La idea es que intentar la búsqueda de acuerdos —y la actuación conjunta— entre un número pequeño de países tiene más posibilidades de tener un efecto significativo que buscar la coordinación de, por ejemplo, ciento noventa países.

As Afro-Latinas in the world, we are constantly negotiating others' assumptions about where our bodies and our memories overlap, where our Blackness/negritud begins and our Latina-ness end.

negocios ahora, ¿de acuerdo?

maximum of these minimum values; this value is called the maximin, and it is the very least that A can be sure of getting. In this game, if A plays "Favor X," "Favor Y," and "Dodge Issue," these minimum values would be 10, 45 and

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Arabs respect only the language of force.

real politics is such a process of growth through which you gain the bargaining power...