Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
John SteinbeckIt isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, ‚How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?‘
Colin PowellMost negotiators are trying to get their way.
Stephen CoveyThe whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system – at least not in the way that is claimed. The same is true of the roads, of course.
Noam ChomskyYou have no ability, if you’re a financial institution and you’re threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
Warren BuffettThe basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
George WashingtonEven peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin FranklinIt is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
Joan of ArcBy what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
Abraham LincolnI do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
Madeleine AlbrightTo compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.
Joyce MeyerA large majority of Americans believe that the U.N., not the U.S., should take the lead in working with Iraqis to transfer authentic sovereignty as well as in economic reconstruction and maintaining civic order.
Noam ChomskyAll an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.
Lou HoltzLet us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
Richard M. NixonNever hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Winston ChurchillMy view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate.
Henry KissingerWe win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
Mahatma GandhiI won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
Lou HoltzCommunism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
Frank ZappaWhen I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.
Jimmy CarterThe bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
B. C. ForbesRussia isn’t going to start a war. They can’t afford it. I think Mr. Putin can be dealt with if we stop screaming at him. You can work with the guy. You just have to know who he is.
Colin PowellIf you’re a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.
Thich Nhat HanhI think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.
Warren BuffettSpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.
Elon MuskI sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.
George W. BushIn the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.
Narendra ModiThose who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Winston ChurchillOur position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.
Fidel CastroSeptember 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.
Noam ChomskyCapitalism has proven to be the only system that works, but the problem with capitalism is that extreme wealth ends up in the hands of a few people.
Richard BransonUnless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
Jimmy CarterThe best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
Dalai LamaI want to negotiate what I’m worth. I want to put my analytics forward, man-to-man, and to be like, ‚This is what I’m owed now. Pay me.‘ And then we can talk.
Conor McGregorColonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
Benjamin DisraeliNeither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
Jean-Paul SartreThe problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.
Robert KiyosakiThe Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
Dalai LamaThe only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
Franklin D. RooseveltI think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.
Tom BradyThe main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.
Vivienne WestwoodI think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.
Kanye WestU.S. Government propaganda tries to give the impression that aerial bombardment achieves near-surgical accuracy, so that military targets can be destroyed with minimal effect on civilians. Technical documents give a different picture.
Noam ChomskyCapitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That’s the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.
Martin Luther King, Jr.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.
Jimmy CarterCompromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.
Gilbert K. ChestertonDiplomacy: the art of restraining power.
Henry KissingerLove is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.
George BestAllow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham LincolnMe and my brother get along super well. We’re, like, best friends. So we’ll stay up until, like, five just talking because we get along and, you know, it’s cool. And he respects my opinions, and I respect his, even if we don’t have the same opinions, but a lot of the time we do.
Billie EilishNobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.
Madeleine AlbrightNecessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin FranklinWe’ve become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that’s been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I’ve ever seen in my life.
Jimmy CarterImagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.
Thomas SowellYou may agree or not with Gaddafi’s political ideas, but no one has the right to question the existence of Libya as an independent state and member of the United Nations.
Fidel CastroJust as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
Mahatma GandhiOur economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth’s treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.
Vivienne WestwoodThe moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
Lyndon B. JohnsonEvery country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.
Fidel CastroDiplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.
Colin Powell