#negotiation

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#anxious #assumes #classic #diplomatic #disagree

Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's? ↗

— King Abdullah II

#compromises #concessions #during #freedom #gifts

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#been #compromised #diplomatic #initiatives #interested

While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#been #developing #diplomatic #enrichment #european

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

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Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#easy #everything #negotiable #negotiation #thing

I had the trade minister in China sit down as we were preparing for trade negotiations. He said, 'Please don't let people in the United States lose their confidence because when you lose your confidence, the rest of the world suffers'. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#china #confidence #down #had #i

One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya. ↗

— Akhmad Kadyrov

#chechnya #civilized #conduct #decades #develop

Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#consider #crisis #economic #force #further

By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#both #declaration #dreaded #everything #foes