Quotes About Negotiation

The political climate in Washington always pushes policymakers toward being "tough" rather than "soft"—which is a dangerous way to frame international affairs. The real question is, can they be smart rather than stupid?

The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

When anyone in Washington asks for a favor, no matter how little the favor means to you, act pained and get as much as you can in exchange - even if the person asking is the president of the United States.

For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.

The level of analysis that is done when you see laws created, whether it's the city or state or federal level - it's much more horse-trading than analysis.

I did shows for a while without a rider, actually, because nobody tells you that it comes out of your fee.

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

We were eyeball-to-eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Politics is a rough game, and sometimes as females we are taught that you have to play nice. Sometimes you can't play nice.

The idea is to go to bed every night with fewer enemies than you had in the morning.

I'm a fighter, so when someone says 'no' to me, I try to figure out what I need to adjust to hear the yes.

You can't force fighters to fight.

You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them.

Although everyone fights, few people know how to have a good argument, an argument that clears the air and makes it less likely a future argument will take place on the same subject.

The fights that I had with DC and Marvel, I won. And guess what? They profited by it.

A series is filled with compromises.

Filmmaking is all about people management.

The nature of the final Brexit deal really matters. It is, as I have said before, the battle of our times.

Finality is not the language of politics.

When you walk into a room and you're asking someone to give you money to finance an idea, that's never easy.

Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.

I want to be a fair trader. I want to be a firm and fair trader.

I understand the politics of Washington, D.C. You need to hold firm, you need to work with your colleagues, and you need to throw elbows.

I'm a firm believer that I'll make fights happen, get the fights done.