Quotes About Negotiation

Animosity is not a policy.

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.

I don't want foreign policy developed just by one party and ride roughshod over the other party.

No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

Normally, I would seek to compromise, but not on immigration policy.

Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get your interest served in a way that meets the interests and needs of these other folks.

We can't let the USMCA become another casualty of political games.

The Government of India should take all political parties into confidence before arriving at an agreement with Pakistan.

One political party must behave goodly with another political party, whatever is possible within the political jurisdiction.

We now have a political process, we've had a period of parties that have been fighting each other quite literally with bombs and bullets, talking to each other, and having sat together in the assembly and sharing government with each other.

There is no such thing as a politically correct war.

I shake hands very gladly politically. I don't think you could be a politician if you didn't shake hands.

Politicians never say never to anything.

Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win.

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.

All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

I've been dealing with politicians all my life. All my life. And I've always gotten them to do what I need them to do.

Everything is politics.

Politics is not a world for the squeamish or fainthearted.

Nothing comes easy in life, but politics is incredibly difficult.

Dialogue is the essence of parliamentary politics.

In politics, there are no friends.