Quotes about Negotiation

If Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.

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.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

Because European countries now resolve differences through negotiation and consensus, there's sometimes an assumption that the entire world functions in the same way. But let us never forget ... beyond Europe's borders, in a world where oppression and violence are very real, liberation is still a moral goal, and freedom and security still need defenders.

No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace.