Negotiating Quotes

Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing. - Mike Simpson

You mentioned the Free Trade Agreement and yes I can't tell you how pleased we are that Morocco is one of the countries that our country is going to begin negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with. - Donald Evans

You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state. - Benjamin Netanyahu

You have to regain the (peace) momentum by getting people to respect the cease-fire, come up with a coherent negotiating position and when the negotiations resume on November 20, to get the rebels as well as the government ... to make more progress toward a peace accord. - Robert Zoellick

You have to have your eye on the prize. We've reached this point after more than 40 years of negotiating with Turkey. This is the next major step. - Michael Gunter

You had some of the closest people to Janet Reno in good faith negotiating to try to avert this. And I believe that to send, you know, armed agents with gun point and with a mask on the holiest of weekends is simply something we expect in Castro's Cuba, and not here. - Robert Menendez

You go and you start negotiating, and if you don't stop them ... you will have to take rather drastic actions, because if you don't take them on now, you're going to be in awfully big trouble in five years from now when they have more missiles then we do. - Donald Trump

You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder. - Joe Slovo

Yes, sure terrorism must be met with an iron fist, and terrorism is something you have to fight strongly, on the other hand we need to call to negotiate and I will call the Palestinians to come back to the negotiating table. - Amram Mitzna

Wittingly or otherwise, the US negotiating team has executed an apparent cave-in - embracing precepts crucial to North Korean objectives but inimical to Washington's own. - Nicholas Eberstadt