Negotiation Quotes - Page 16

• We have worked to make our trade negotiations more transparent and to negotiate value-based agreements. We have listened to concerns, for example by carrying out a reform of the investment protection system and setting out to create a multilateral investment court. Our world is rapidly changing and this creates a multitude of concerns.

  Cecilia Malmstrom

  World, Protection, Investment

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot.

  Carl Sandburg

  Ducks, Competition, Grease

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• If you keep groaning, please do it to a rythmn I can dance to.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Competition, Conflict, Groaning

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• Our efforts to counter hatred, intolerance, and indifference must continue simultaneously at individual and structural levels. We must try to influence for good the minds and hearts of individual people through dialogue and confidence building. These efforts must be reinforced by our efforts to create just structures in society to support the ongoing work of negotiations in the human community. Only then will we have a chance to negate the terrible consequences of the tremendous conflicts facing humankind today.

  Nelson Mandela

  Heart, People, Support

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• The public negotiations and secret intrigues of the English (Jews) and the French (Jews) have been employed for centuries in every court and country in Europe. Look back to the history of Spain, Holland, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Prussia, Italy and Turkey for the last hundred years...all the power of Europe will be continually maneuvering with us to work us into the real or imaginary balance of power.

  John Adams

  Country, Real, Turkeys

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• MAN THE BATTLE STATIONS! Someone's coming who wants to reason with us.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Men, Competition, Battle

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• How can there ever possibly be a conflict between my private interests and the public good?

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Competition, Conflict, Interest

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• If women ran the world there would be no wars. However every 28 days there would be some very intense negotiations.

  Robin Williams

  War, World, Would Be

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• Forgive me for allowing myself to be hurt by you so easily.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Hurt, Forgive Me, Competition

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• The History of our Revolution will be one continued Lye from one End to the other. The Essence of the whole will be that Dr Franklins electrical Rod, Smote the Earth and out Spring General Washington. That Franklin electrified him with his Rod - and thence forward these two conducted all the Policy Negotiations Legislation and War.

  John Adams

  Lying, War, Two

  John Adams' Letter to Benjamin Rush, founders.archives.gov. April 4, 1790.

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• From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over whatever it wants in the West Bank, maintaining the brutal siege on Gaza, separating Gaza from the West Bank and, of course, occupying the Syrian Golan heights, all with full U.S. support.

  Noam Chomsky

  Israel, Views, Support

  "Noam Chomsky: While Syria descends into suicide, Israel and the US are enjoying the spectacle". Interview with Frank Barat, chomsky.info. September 7, 2013.

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• Japan should get more involved in mediating disputes between countries and seek to play the role of a peace broker. To make this possible, we must train people so they have a solid understanding of international politics and great negotiation skills.

  Sadako Ogata

  Country, Japan, Play

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame it on you.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Competition, Faults, Blame

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• In a museum in El Paso, Texas, there's a map that shows all the places the border between the U.S. and Mexico has been (because it shifted) - I find it very clarifying (not confusing) to be reminded that everything we feel like we've really pinned down is transient, arbitrary, and marks the site of a painful if not violent negotiation, one that may not have ended.

  Laura Mullen

  Museums, Texas, Confusing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

  Brad Garrett

  Real, Believe, Hostage

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• The thread of will-they-or-won't-they was the real driver of every word and glance and shift of body. So...this was a date, Blay thought. A subtextual negotiation slipcovered in talk of books read and music enjoyed.

  J.R. Ward

  Real, Book, Body

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• On his contract negotiations with the Devils: It's beyond money at this point. They're not even treating him as a member of their family, unless it's a dysfunctional family.

  Kurt Overhardt

  Hockey, Devil, Dysfunctional Family

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• Gabe scratched his double chin. "Maybe if you hurry with the seven-layer dip...And maybe if the kid apologizes for interrupting my poker game." Maybe if I kick you in your soft spot, I thought. And make you sing Soprano for a week.

  Rick Riordan

  Kids, Games, Layers

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• Negotiations with Iran, especially, will not be easy under any circumstances, but I suspect that they might be somewhat less difficult if the nuclear-weapon states could show that their requests are part of a broader effort to lead the world, including themselves, toward nuclear disarmament. Preventing further proliferation is essential, but it is not a recipe for success to preach to the rest of the world to stay away from the very weapons that nuclear states claim are indispensable to their own security.

  Hans Blix

  Military, Iran, Nuclear Disarmament

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• Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

  Fear, Moving, Home

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1992). “Georgia Scenes”, p.27, J.S. Sanders Books

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• We've made clear our view, which is we support the Russian proposal. It's within the context of the EU diplomacy aimed at getting Iran to re-suspend its enrichment activities and return to negotiations.

  Joseph Adam Ereli

  Views, Iran, Support

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• When we came then to the 1967 negotiations we had the problem of one market between two countries fully under the control of the American companies that owned the facilities on both sides of the border.

  Leonard Woodcock

  Country, Two Sides, Borders

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• There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.

  Peter Pace

  Leadership, Battle, Offensive

  "September 11, 2001 : Attack on America". DoD News Briefing - Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Pace, avalon.law.yale.edu. November 30, 2001.

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• We will not engage in an endless process of negotiations.

  Barack Obama

  Process, Endless

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• You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win.

  Felix Dennis

  Winning, Men, Promise

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