Quotes About Negotiation

Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests.

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

There is nothing more important in business or politics than a deal is a deal.

Politics is a game of friends.

Never quit politicking and never underestimate your opponent.

Diplomacy is living in state.

My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again.

In politics you learn to always smile.

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d'oeuvres.

The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory.

In politics, victory is never total.

When you're in politics sometimes you step on toes and they come back and kick you in the backside.

People like to do politics with me, and they like to do business.

Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays.

It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist deficit hawk.

I understand the process of politics and the game of television.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Peace is a process - a way of solving problems.

Politics is war without bloodshed and war is politics with blood.

The prerequisites for being in the diplomatic corps are the ability to handle protocol alcohol and Geritol.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.