You have no ability, if you’re a financial institution and you’re threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

When 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.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

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.

If 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.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

I 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.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

I 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.

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

Diplomacy 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.

If 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.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

The 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.

It 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.

I’m a felon. I get pulled over all the time.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

I 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.

It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Compromise 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.

A financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it’s a well run institution – say, Goldman Sachs – it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bilateral relations, on a basis of the strictest mutual respect for the sovereign rights of each country. We will never try to ask the government of the United States to change its economic and political system.

I 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.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

You can’t regulate every lab in the world.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

You don’t want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.

In 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.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Those 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.

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.

Russia 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.

There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms.