Negotiating Quotes

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.
Pope John Paul II

War, Death, Pain

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.
James Cameron

Everything, Friends, Small

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
Robert Mugabe

Ask, Longer, Land

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

The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
Madeleine Albright

Good, Mind, Person

It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.
Elizabeth Warren

American, Financial, Table

Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Living, While, Less

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.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Peace, Simple, Down

You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Peace, End, Give

I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.
Leigh Steinberg

Life, Everyday, Feared

There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.
Dick Wolf

Why, Working, Against

Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspective, partly because of my family, partly because of what I did for ten years: negotiating trade deals, working out in Central Asia doing assistance projects.
Nick Clegg

Family, Different, Working

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
Dean Acheson

Sense, Agree, Disagree

I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk.
Charles Schumer

Hope, Down, Give

Whether you agree with me or disagree with me; like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British nation.
John Major

Nation, Whether, Hands

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward.
Mohamed ElBaradei

Hope, Forward, Said

I have to say that it was a very strange experience when, later in life, I represented Byron Scott and was negotiating with West - whose picture I used to have over my bed! That took some getting used to.
Leigh Steinberg

Life, Experience, Strange

The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.
Leigh Steinberg

The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn't give them the minimum of their rights.
Hassan Nasrallah

Give, Rights, Found

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Peace, Everything, Country

Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries.
Helen Clark

Country, Small, Unless

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.
Marvin Gaye

Best, Getting, Means

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.
Deborah Tannen

Women, Language, Primarily

The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president's options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president.
Ari Fleischer

Down, President, Questions

The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians.
Boris Yeltsin

Important, Sit, Table

I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are.
John Prescott

God, Thank, Table

You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.
Joe Slovo

Keep, Gun, Table

Here, I declare that the Palestine Liberation Organization is ready to return immediately to the negotiating table on the basis of the adopted terms of reference based on international legitimacy and a complete cessation of settlement activities.
Mahmoud Abbas

Here, Ready, Return

It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.
Caprice Bourret

Funny, Here, Used

You mentioned the Free Trade Agreement and yes I can't tell you how pleased we are that Morocco is one of the countries that our country is going to begin negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with.
Donald Evans

Country, Free, Tell

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