Quotes about Negotiation

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One minute of Eldridge Cleaver is worth ten minutes of Roy Wilkins. The labor crises settled at the negotiating table is nothing compared to the confrontation that results in a strike ... normality has become the nemesis of network news.

Certainly it is much easier to think about negotiating and having deals when there is a singular represented point of view. That pretty much is a given.

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

I don't think that strategically it is smart to begin cutting your options when the other side does not move at all.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

When I negotiated the ceasefire in Gaza with President Morsi, he was, you know, very involved.

The truth was, that he had not whipped me at all. I considered him as getting entirely the worst end of the bargain; for he had drawn no blood from me, but I had from him. The whole six months afterwards, that I spent with Mr. Covey, he never laid the weight of his finger upon me in anger. He would occasionally say, he didn't want to get hold of me again. No, thought I, you need not; for you will come off worse than you did before.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?

The purpose of all war is peace.