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Quotes About Arbitration

Anything else that is not sexual assault or sexual harassment - those will be typically subject to arbitration. And Uber is like most other companies in that regard.
~ Tony West
Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both accept.
~ Ayn Rand
It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.
~ Paul Ricoeur
Her "bailiff" was named Waco. He was a retired stand-up comic. Yes, for real. This was a TV set, not a courtroom, though it looked like one. While not exactly a trial, Hester did preside over a legal proceeding of a certain kind. The two parties sign a contract for arbitration. The producers pay the settlement, and both the plaintiff and the defendant are paid a hundred dollars a day. It's win-win
~ Harlan Coben
Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.
~ Henry Campbell-Bannerman
I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.
~ Chris Christie
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.
~ Ludwig Quidde
Arbitration is private. It doesn't have the tools to dig into the corporate files. It's usually controlled by arbitrators who want repeat business from corporations not from the injured person.
~ Ralph Nader
18A coin tossi resolves a dispute and can put an argument to rest between formidable opponents.
~ Brian Simmons
Caldenia blinked. "Who are the attending parties?" "The Holy Anocracy represented by House Krahr, the Hope-crushing Horde, and the Merchants of Baha-char. They coming here for Arbitration and they will probably try to murder each other the moment they walk through the door." Caldenia's eyes widened. "Do you really think so? This is absolutely marvelous!" She would think so, wouldn't she?
~ Ilona Andrews
The minute that you go to arbitration, it's 100% confidential, so nobody ever hears about it.
~ Gretchen Carlson
They are coming here for the arbitration, and they will probably try to murder each other the moment they walk through the door." Caldenia's eyes widened. "Do you really think so? This is absolutely marvelous!" She would think so, wouldn't she?
~ Ilona Andrews
When two great powers disagree about anything - it doesn't matter what - they must find a way to settle it somehow by arbitration or by negotiation, not by war or threat of war.
~ Bertrand Russell
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
~ George Herbert
It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply.
~ Howard Staunton
And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause
~ Thomas Hobbes
It stands for Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement.
~ Neal Stephenson
A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit.
~ German proverb
The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.
~ David Suzuki
I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures?
~ Thomas Jefferson
It is attributed to Henry IV of France, a man of enlarged and benevolent heart, that he proposed, about the year 1610, a plan for abolishing war in Europe. The plan consisted in constituting an European Congress, or as the French authors style it, a Pacific republic; by appointing delegates from the several nations who were to act as a court of arbitration in any disputes that might arise between nation and nation.
~ Thomas Paine
La vanidad del hombre podrá ser infinita pero su saber sigue siendo imperfecto y por más que valore sus juicios llegará un momento en que tendrá que someterlos al arbitrio de una instancia superior. Y
~ Cormac McCarthy
I am fixed in awe at the mighty conflict to which two great nations are advancing, and recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands, & of the labor of millions of our fellow-creatures?
~ Thomas Jefferson, 1798