Quotes about Negotiation
Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
I agree with you, that in Politicks the Middle Way is none at all.
- John Adams
All my life I've dealt with politicians. I know politicians better than anybody. And honestly, if you can't deal with a politician, there's something wrong with you.
- Donald Trump
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'
- George Clooney
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
- Cicero
We hope that diplomacy works before you ever use force. The hardest decision a president makes is ever to use force.
- George W. Bush
We are in what we hope is an intensive diplomatic phase now. It will not be open-ended.
- Barack Obama
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
- Mark Twain
Each party should gain from the negotiation.
- Dale Carnegie
If you must compromise, compromise up.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.
- Jane Goodall