Quotes about Negotiation

If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.

I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.

You may well ask: "Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?" You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.

You may well ask: Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path? You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

We'll hold out our hand; they have to unclench their fist.

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

I've dealt with politicians my entire life. You never make a bad deal with a politician. They're so easy.

As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not to shoot at the Jews.

Compromise for compromise sake is never good, unless it is grounded in principles.

To get others to do what you want them to do, you must see things through their eyes.