I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
Harry S. TrumanLet us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. KennedyI 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 HoltzThe main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.
Vivienne WestwoodMy 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 KissingerUnless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
Jimmy CarterI don’t know a country in the world that doesn’t have borders and doesn’t want to know who is coming into their country.
John KennedyIf I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
Henry KissingerThe problem with car dealerships is you’ve already decided what you want to buy before you even go there, and you’re really just going there to talk through some annoying negotiation.
Elon MuskThe 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 LamaWith impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.
Herbert HooverEven peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin FranklinSeptember 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 ChomskyNobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.
Madeleine AlbrightCapitalism 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.Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you’re just going to keep buying and selling things until there’s nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
Alice WalkerLet us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
Richard M. NixonNeither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
Jean-Paul SartreIn every country except – industrial country except the United States, the government uses its massive purchasing power to negotiate drug prices. That’s one of the reasons prices are so much higher in the United States than in other countries.
Noam ChomskyThe 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 KiyosakiHistory shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
Noam ChomskyMost negotiators are trying to get their way.
Stephen CoveyA sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
James MadisonWhen 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 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 SowellTo jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
Winston ChurchillThose 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 ChurchillThe best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
Dalai LamaYou 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 CastroTo compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.
Joyce MeyerNever hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
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 CastroCompromise 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. ChestertonSpaceX 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 MuskWhat is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamDiplomacy: the art of restraining power.
Henry KissingerI believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.
Narendra ModiThe bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
B. C. ForbesI don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.
Noam ChomskyRussia 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 PowellEvery country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.
Fidel CastroSyntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
John SteinbeckA 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 ChomskyI 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 WestYou don’t want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
Jeff BezosSocialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
George Bernard ShawIn 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 ModiIt 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 PowellAdvocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
Bertrand RussellIt 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 ArcDiplomacy 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 PowellDiplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.
Will RogersLove is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.
George BestWe win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
Mahatma GandhiI 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 BradyIf 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 HanhThe 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. JohnsonNecessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin FranklinJust 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 GandhiOnly free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
Nelson Mandela