Quotes About Negotiation

A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.

In all my years of being with Pittsburgh, I never encountered a player taking a contract dispute into the season and letting that dispute affect the way he played.

I'm taking a break, if you will. Days' was going through a renewal negotiation and not knowing where they were going to go.

I am not afraid of taking risks. We have to take risks for peace.

Our aim is always to minimise casualties and to separate a hardline Taliban from those who have been caught up in the insurgency.

Talking to the Taliban is a process the Afghans have to manage. It is their country.

I've dealt with the Taliban and al Qaeda.

The condition that the Taliban part with al Qaeda is not just a condition, it is an objective. We must convince them that al Qaeda ideology and dogma will not help them.

Peace cannot come without the government of Afghanistan speaking directly to the Taliban or the Taliban talking directly to us.

In principle, there is nothing wrong with the United States negotiating directly with the Taliban.

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business - just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I'm an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you're being compromised.

The process of forming government in a minority is one where you talk to everyone and see: What do you have in common? And is there enough commonality?

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

The Mexicans bowed down when we talked about removing their foreign aid, and then they began cooperating with our country.

In football, as in life, as in business, everything can be talked about and discussed.

A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.

I believe in diplomacy; I don't believe in talking to... that talking to Iran somehow constitutes a concession or a favour.

Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.

Talking and diplomacy is often seen as a concession in America, in a way that it is not in other places.

Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.

Money talks. When you have the financing behind you, you can make deals.

People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.