Bargaining Quotes - Page 3

• There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Sports, Military

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• The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground.

  Randy Alcorn

  Black And White, Army, Fog

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• As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.

  Dan Rather

  Presidential, Political, Covering

  "Dan Rather: 'Quote approval' a media sellout" by Dan Rather, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2012.

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• All we have to do to create the future is to change the nature of our conversations, to go from blame to ownership, and from bargaining to commitment, and from problem solving to possibility.

  Peter Block

  Commitment, Responsibility, Blame

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• The peoples are not awake...[There are dangers] which will render a world organization impossible.
  I foresee the renewal of...the secret bargaining behind closed doors. Peoples will be as before,
  the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.
  International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries,
  established by the peoples and for the peoples.

  Henri La Fontaine

  Country, Sheep, Doors

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• How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?

  Charles Williams

  Bargains

  Charles Williams (2016). “War in Heaven”, p.193, Charles Williams

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• If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining.

  Richard Dawkins

  Men, Risk, Goes On

  Richard Dawkins (2017). “Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist”, p.235, Random House

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• Well, we’re going to start in a couple weeks with our budget adjustment bill. The first step is we’re going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employee unions, because you use divide and conquer.

  Scott Walker

  Couple, Use, Unions

  "Koch-Tied Group Pushes New Union-Busting Bill in Wisconsin" by Mary Bottari, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2014.

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• Our standard rate. A doubloon a day." It was generous. More than generous--some families would put him up for a week for a single coin. "Half a doubloon a day," she said. "No, you see, the idea behind bargaining is that you ask for a larger amount.

  Ilona Andrews

  Ideas, Coins, Half

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• It is not a process of bargaining or give-and-take. The peace process is not about giving concessions. We will not allow any step which would hurt the memories of our martyrs.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Peace, Hurt, Memories

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• The market's been soft, .. and I think that's mostly a result of the new provisions in the collective bargaining agreement.

  Andrew Zimbalist

  Thinking, Agreement, Results

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• If you let your emotions get high, your bargaining power will be low. Make sure you don't negotiate from a position of need when making a deal.

  Sharon Lechter

  Needs, Getting High, Emotion

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• Both sides go the bargaining table holding cards quite close to the chest and bluffing like crazy, .

  Andrew Zimbalist

  Crazy, Cards, Tables

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• But while the American Constitution was the child of war, ours grew out of discussion, bargaining and negotiation.

  John Allen Fraser

  Children, War, Constitution

  John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière

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• When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Cutting, Men, Wings

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• European Union partners never said European Union partners're going to renege on any promises, European Union partners said that European Union partners promises concern a four-year parliamentary term, european Union partners will be spaced out in an optimal way, in a way that is in tune with our bargaining stance in Europe and also with the fiscal position of the Greek state.

  Yanis Varoufakis

  Years, Europe, Greek

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• We can make sure that people who don't have health insurance can buy into an insurance pool that gives them better bargaining power.

  Barack Obama

  People, Giving, Pool

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Sometimes a creditor is willingto do this as a bargaining point - you give the creditor cash in hand, it gives you a positive listing on your credit report - even though you haven't paid the full amount. Get this agreement in writing.

  Jean Chatzky

  Writing, Agreement, Hands

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• We need to support new organizing strategies for employees who too often have never had the benefit of collective bargaining, and we have to resist the assault on workers' rights.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Support, Needs

  Source: time.com

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• I will not use people's lives as bargaining chips.

  Andrea Leadsom

  People, Use, Chips

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I think it is disgraceful. I think it is completely disgusting that you've got a candidate for prime minster who seems to think that human beings are bargaining chips.

  Nicola Sturgeon

  Thinking, Prime, Chips

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• A child is not a bargaining chip or a learning tool. Your focus, if you adopt a child of a different race, should be on nurturing and protecting your child from bigotry, not deploying him or her as an anti-racist Mr. Fix-It.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Children, Race, Focus

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I was never presented with the details as far as the collective bargaining system is Greece. I am in favor of a normal system without giving the labour minister the right to extend the results to extend the result of the collective bargaining to the whole of the real economy. The government has to make sure that the results will not harm the situation of small and medium enterprises.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Real, Government, Giving

  Source: marketnews.com

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• As developing countries became bigger traders, it was clear that the old way of doing business wouldn't fly. To get them back to the bargaining table, the wealthy countries had to offer something more: a new round of talks that would use trade as a tool to help developing countries grow.

  Daniel Altman

  Country, Developing Countries, Way

  "Why the WTO Is Obsolete". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Yet far from putting any meaningful constraints on law enforcement in this war, the U.S. Supreme Court has given the police license to stop and search just about anyone, in any public place, without a shred of evidence of criminal activity, and it has also closed the courthouse doors to claims of racial bias at every stage of the judicial process from stops and searches to plea bargaining and sentencing.

  Michelle Alexander

  Meaningful, War, Doors

  "How the Drug War Fuels a New Racial Caste System in America". Interview With Mark Karlin, img.alternet.org. August 2, 2012.

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