Negotiation Quotes

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
Henry A. Kissinger

Consider, Sign, Request

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
Richard M. Nixon

During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.
Brian Koslow

Wise, Able, Leave

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.
Meryl Streep

Family, Road, Map

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Peace, End, Begin

Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.
John Bolton

Advantage, Policy, Technique

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so.
Howard Baker

Challenge, Here, Difficult

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.
Carrie Fisher

Everything, Another, Easy

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

Sense, Agree, Disagree

It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991.
Condoleezza Rice

Time, Tell, High

Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
Ai Weiwei

Family, Time, Power

More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.
James Levine

Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border.
Tom Metzger

Blood, Either, Realistic

Negotiation means getting the best of your opponent.
Marvin Gaye

Best, Getting, Means

If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.
Harri Holkeri

Truth, Nothing, Saying

However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.
Hideki Tojo

Technology, Through, Moment

There is no possible negotiation with these killers. Our aim is to win over terrorism. Only by being firm we can stop terrorism. We must be firm fighting the terrorists and opposing the final aims they want to achieve.
Jose Maria Aznar

Win, Fighting, Possible

World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.
Richard Holbrooke

War, Inevitable, Historians

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.
Brad Garrett

Marriage, Real, Tedious

There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to have a military talk to Pyongyang, which has been stopped for seven years.
Kim Dae Jung

Successful, Talk, Military

The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future - but it's never like that, is it? Once you get there, for economic reasons you have to generate the next project - so you're immediately starting to dig up something else, and so it goes on.
Iain Sinclair

Future, Made, Else

When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that's what went down.
Yul Vazquez

Mom, Down, Said

I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.
Siegfried Sassoon

Change, War, Done

This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.
David Brooks

Death, Hate, Reason

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