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
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 Kissinger
The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It’s when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war. – Ingrid Betancourt
The Taliban has not, in my judgment, in any significant way changed their fundamental goal and objective, which is to take over Afghanistan and return to running that country. It doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t have negotiation talks with them. I think we should. But we’ve got to be clear-eyed about it. – Jack Keane
I am utterly opposed to all equivocation or obscure expressions in our public acts. We are bound to say plainly what we mean to say. If we mean negotiation and compromise, let us say it distinctly and plainly instead of sending to the President a resolution on which he may put whatever interpretation he pleases. – John C. Calhoun
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
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. – Dean Acheson
It’s very rare you get a director who’s that invested in the actors. So yeah, when ‘Little Fish’ came around, there wasn’t much negotiation! – Martin Henderson
When these people walk into the room, they don’t say, ‘Oh hello, how’s the weather? It’s so beautiful outside. How are the Yankees doing? They’re doing wonderful, that’s great.’ They say, ‘We want deal!’ – Donald Trump Doing an impression of Asian negotiators for crowd at campaign event.
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
Either we’re going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border. – Tom Metzger
Social change doesn’t happen in the Arab region through dramatic confrontation, beating, or indeed, baring of breasts, but rather through negotiation. – Shereen El Feki
Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way toward what happened in November, which was an electoral win with 49 states. And the sheer unnecessariness of the Watergate break-in is something that must have tormented him and his allies in all of the years that followed. – Thomas Mallon
I’ve grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act. – Thom Mayne
