Quotes About Negotiation

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.

As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.

A Peace to End All Peace.

Since Eve negotiated Adam, I am the most disadvantaged negotiator in history of mankind. I have no army, no navy, no air force, no economy.

An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.

The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.

The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world.

We had one moment in history where we were disseminating what we now call the Islamic State. That's when we finally cut the deal with the insurgents.

With Iran's long history of lies and non-cooperation, why are we talking to them? Why are we giving them legitimacy?

It is better to give your path to a dog than to be bitten by him, contesting for the right.

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.

When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.

Just because you didn't get your way, don't take your ball and go home.

I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.

The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.

To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return.

On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.

I hope that being in places from the [Shinzo Abe] Prime Minister's past will motivate us to have a sincere, very practical and, I hope, productive conversation.

I'm from Oregon. This is a town of no. I say no to a lot of things, and I get told no for a lot of things. Sometimes there's a yes, and you hope you see something in it.

I always hold out hope. Mediation is an opportunity for each side to present their case, and for us to get back to the table again.

If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve.