Quotes about Negotiation

You need to suspend your reaction when you feel like striking back, to listen when you feel like talking back, to ask questions when you feel like telling your opponent the answers, to bridge your differences when you feel like pushing for your way, and to educate when you feel like escalating. Breakthrough

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

I once heard one of his colleagues describe my father as "the kind of guy who could tell you to go to hell and you'd look forward to the trip.

Wars aren't won with guns; they're won with checkbooks.

Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.

Decisions are not up for negotiation.

I feel like I've always been a great mediator.

Violence has never resolved any issue.

People ask, 'How do you work with the other side?' Well, I start by not saying bad things about them.