Confrontational Quotes

You try to manipulate the process. In Sacramento, I was very good at it, at getting legislation passed. And when I came to Washington I thought that I was going to approach it differently. That the conventional wisdom was such that you had to not be confrontational, not challenge too much, but understand that there was great tradition. - Maxine Waters

Without referring to anybody directly, one of the problems with confrontational public negotiating is that it runs the risk of alienating a public with a median family income of $35,000. So that when a player is complaining publicly that he's only being paid $7-million a year instead of $9-million, a fan can look at that with real anger. And an owner who's challenged publicly may simply become more locked in and less apt to ever compromise. - Leigh Steinberg

With this move, he risks alienating natural and otherwise sympathetic partners like Brazil and Spain. Ordering the military to seize the natural gas fields is unnecessarily confrontational and antagonistic. - Michael Shifter

We're living in a day and age where you never know how people are going to react, if they're going to become violent or become confrontational. - Jacqueline Whitmore

We're concerned that Iran's activities pose an increasing threat to international peace and security. Iran's pattern of deception, its concealment, its confrontational approach, increasingly worries the world community. - Greg Schulte

We'd rather see reductions be made through a process like this than any kind of confrontational process. - Dan Considine

We were the first people who did investigative stuff, who asked occasionally abrasive, occasionally confrontational questions. - Mike Wallace

We have been deeply outraged by both the massacres at Racak and by Belgrade's confrontational and destructive response to the justifiable international anger. - James Rubin

We don't want to be confrontational, but if it happens, it will be the USA's fault. - Li Xiaojun

We are quite open, but we don't want a debate style, it is too confrontational in this kind of situation. We are willing to sit down and talk with all parties concerned, but still think it should be a closed-door session. - Suranand Vejjajiva