Quotes About Negotiation

India seeks to be a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council... things like this don't happen automatically, you need constant dialogue and discussion with the world.

In politics, there are no permanent enemies or friends.

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

I told him there was one city that they must not bomb without my permission and that was Kyoto.

The U.N. can meet and discuss, but we don't need their permission.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

Diplomacy without sagacity and manoeuvring is like music without instruments.

Diplomacy without sagacity and prudent manoeuvring is like music without instruments.

Overconfidence that the other side will give you what you want can be a havoc negotiation error.

You have to remember, dear interlocutors, and never forget: that the ultimate goal of negotiating is convergence- not unconditional surrender.

There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers.

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, she or he has no experience with it.

Virtue in the middle, said the Devil, when seated between two lawyers.

In olden times, when a king sent his vogt to a village, the peasants received him with flowers in one hand, and arms in the other, and asked him--which law he intended to apply: the one he found in the village, or the one he brought with him?

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

If only Hitler and Mussolini could have a good game of bowls once a week at Geneva, I feel that Europe would not be as troubled as it is.

The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.

sweet talkers can convert even enemies to friends. So, they do not have any enemies.

Unlike the main streets that cut the city with a butcher's cleaver, this ancient one wiggles its hips quite a bit. It negotiates with the neighborhood, it haggles, gives and takes; rarely is it straight, it is intrinsic.

That's what peace processes are about - changing bullets for votes.

While we always strive to reach 218 with Republican votes, sometimes that is not possible with divided government, and the story of a bill that passed with 150 Republican votes is much more positive and assertive than the story of a bill that passes with 79 Republican votes.

Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.

In the Senate, where 60 votes are required to do anything important, you have to work with your colleagues on both sides of the aisle.