Negotiate Quotes

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
William Shakespeare

Trust, Eye, Agent

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Nelson Mandela

Men, Freedom, Cannot

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
Nelson Mandela

Men, Cannot, Free

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
Jesse Jackson

Dreams, Government, Free

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
Moliere

True, Compromise, Heaven

A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
Jimmy Carter

Equality, Himself, Process

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.
Jimmy Carter

Peace, Try, Between

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.
Dee Dee Myers

Trying, Same, Serious

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.
Sheryl Sandberg

Success, Work, Women

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.
Dee Dee Myers

Leadership, Children, Football

If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.
Jonathan Sacks

Leadership, Teacher, Mean

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
Harold Wilson

Acceptance, Whatever, Wind

You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
Jeff Bezos

Simple, Price, Buy

History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.
Daisaku Ikeda

History, Wisdom, Human

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.
Thom Mayne

Work, Learned, Sense

I talk, watch TV, spout opinions, schmooze, negotiate, talk some more, play games, and have a little cocktail.
Andy Cohen

Play, Talk, Opinions

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.
Marc Maron

Devil, Actually, Artists

It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.
Leigh Steinberg

Learning, Happy, Keep

We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers' unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them.
Grover Norquist

Through, Another, Rather

There is nothing that I'd love to do more than negotiate with Palestinians. This is my desire. This is my dream. This is my mission.
Ehud Olmert

Love, Nothing, Dream

I don't know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.
Ehud Olmert

Government, Serious, American

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.
Theodore C. Sorensen

War, Smart, Enemy

If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party.
Chuck Grassley

Good, Party, Four

Women and children were slaughtered by the Taliban. You are going to sit down and negotiate with these folks? They never lived up to an agreement. The Pakistanis tried in '08, the Russians tried it when they were there. George Bush tried it in '05. It has never worked.
Mike Rogers

Women, Children, Down

Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.
Richard Cobden

Peace, War, After

Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.
Marsha Blackburn

War, After, Treat

I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then.
Claire McCaskill

Politics, Trying, Country

WHO has a country office in nearly every developing country, usually located close to the Ministry of Health. Staff in these offices need to do much more to help ministries of health strengthen their national health plans and strategies and then negotiate with development partners to support these priorities and follow these plans.
Margaret Chan

Health, Help, Country

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.
Wesley Morris

Black, Rights, Star

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