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Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent. -- Marvin Gaye
Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. -- Dean Acheson
Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy. -- Virginia Satir
Negotiating with Disney isn't like good cop/bad cop; it's like bad cop/Antichrist. -- Bill Plympton
Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster. -- Philip Hammond
Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary. -- Kent Conrad
Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board and then struts around like it won the game. -- Vladimir Putin
Negotiating with memories isn't easy: how to choose between those panting to be told, those still ripening, those already shriveling, and those destined to be mangled by language and come out pulverized? -- Steve Toltz
Negotiating techniques do not work all that well with kids, because in the middle of a negotiation, they will say something completely unrelated such as, 'You know what? I have a belly button!' and completely throw you off guard. -- Robert Foster Bennett
The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people. -- Leigh Steinberg
It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table. -- Elizabeth Warren
You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder. -- Joe Slovo
We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating. -- Robert Mugabe
I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life. -- Leigh Steinberg
For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships. -- Deborah Tannen
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. -- Jimmy Carter
There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric. -- Dick Wolf
Managers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which teachers can succeed. -- Eli Broad
I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea. -- John Hewson
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it. -- Pope John Paul II
Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word. -- Caspar Weinberger
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Here, I declare that the Palestine Liberation Organization is ready to return immediately to the negotiating table on the basis of the adopted terms of reference based on international legitimacy and a complete cessation of settlement activities. -- Mahmoud Abbas
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
Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to procedure, namely problems and disputes should be solved around the negotiating table. -- Ehud Barak
Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U.S. national security. Such a statement shows a misunderstanding of the enemy we face in Iraq. -- Peter DeFazio
Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspective, partly because of my family, partly because of what I did for ten years: negotiating trade deals, working out in Central Asia doing assistance projects. -- Nick Clegg
Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee. -- James Cameron
If he'd been negotiating Obamacare, Lincoln would have made the infamous 'Cornhusker Kickback' deal - $100 million in Medicaid funds for Nebraska to secure a Senator's vote - in a heartbeat, even if the press howled as it did when Barack Obama agreed to it, forcing its cancellation. -- Joe Klein
The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind. -- Madeleine Albright
I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles. -- Faith Prince
I've been very successful at negotiating debates. -- Donald Trump
We have people that are political hacks negotiating our trade deals. -- Donald Trump
America has maintained a prohibition on negotiating with terrorists for good reason. -- James Inhofe
Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it. -- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
Food is a tool. It is a weapon in the U.S. negotiating kit -- Earl Butz
If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself. -- William Safire
Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise. -- Juan Manuel Santos
Highlighting expensive repair costs to your vendor can also be a powerful negotiating tool. -- Chris Humphreys
What we're not for is negotiating with people with a bomb strapped to their chest. -- Eric Bolling
It's been five years worth of planning and negotiating to bring this to a reality. -- Phil Hartman
We got results that would not have been possible without a negotiating partner like Joe Biden. -- John McCain
Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction. -- Mark McCormack
The better you are at communicating, negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table. -- Barack Obama
Mexican leadership has been doing serious damage to the United States by out-negotiating our representatives and political leaders. -- Donald Trump
The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians -- Boris Yeltsin
The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians. -- Boris Yeltsin
I can sell anything to anyone. That is actually my superpower. I am really good at negotiating and persuading. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Iran is the only country around the negotiating table that has not been attacked by either al-Qaida or Daesh. -- Adel al-Jubeir
I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are. -- John Prescott
I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. Ive always said this is the only way forward. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
There's a way of negotiating how you portray your private life publicly that I've never had the skill to do. -- Gina McKee
It took a long time to get out of my contract. The producers thought I was negotiating for more money. -- Sherry Stringfield
Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries. -- Helen Clark
One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others. -- Nelson Mandela
Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer. -- Jim Ratcliffe
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, never being in business, never really negotiating, give away for nothing things they shouldn't give away. -- Rudy Giuliani
I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mothers condition. -- Leeza Gibbons
If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums. -- Nelson Mandela
Interactive management requires open, honest, and tension-free relationships with others. You do this by negotiating relationships and sharing, so that everybody wins. -- Tony Alessandra
The idea of negotiating with the President of the United States runs contrary to everything that the Republicans have done since January 20, 2009. -- Keith Olbermann
People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two. -- Michael Cunningham
I hear Jesus telling us to stop negotiating with Him, to stop offering something we think we have in exchange for His blessings. -- Larry Crabb
Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in Time. -- Bill Richardson
The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president's options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president. -- Ari Fleischer
The Government has already U-turned today and I think the pressure is clearly growing for proper accountability over what this Government's negotiating position is on Brexit. -- Theresa May
Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, all occupation ends, and you have to deal with the enemy. -- Betty Williams
It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless. -- Caprice Bourret
No for the return of Saddam's Baath party. This is against the constitution and those who are negotiating to bring them back are violating the constitution. -- Jalal Talabani
The chivalrous man who holds a door open or signals a woman to go ahead of him when he's driving is negotiating both status and connection. -- Deborah Tannen
There's a very big difference between negotiating to borrow billions of dollars on behalf of MCA and negotiating to borrow 28 cents in connection with making independent pictures. -- Sidney Sheinberg
Bruce Norris came in twice to audition for 'The Corrections' and subsequently spent many months negotiating every point in a four-year agreement to appear in the show. -- Scott Rudin
My best business decision is always to have been unembarrassed about negotiating a decent deal. Not being coy or shy about money is second nature to me. -- Anne Robinson
IF you are going to fight, don't let them talk you into negotiating. But, if you are going to negotiate, don't let them talk you into fighting. -- Abraham Lincoln
Certainly it is much easier to think about negotiating and having deals when there is a singular represented point of view. That pretty much is a given. -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn't give them the minimum of their rights. -- Hassan Nasrallah
Whether you agree with me or disagree with me; like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British nation. -- John Major
I'm proud of my record of negotiating agreements, representing people and making sure that both employers and employees could get the best out of going to work every day. -- Bill Shorten
We need some leverage with the Russians, because they are not going to come to the negotiating table for a diplomatic resolution, unless there is some leverage over them. -- Hillary Clinton
The reason I started with prostitutes was solely to work on my negotiating skills. Once I mastered negotiating with naked women, dealing with Interscope was a piece of cake. -- Rivers Cuomo
The vote on the Peacekeeper is also a vote on Geneva. Rejecting the Peacekeeper will knock the legs out from under the negotiating table. (On importance of the MX missile) -- Ronald Reagan
I have a reputation in my professional work, negotiating contracts, where I've gone into deals where other people haven't closed the deal, and I've been able to get it done. -- Keith Rothfus
I will stand against those who see terrorism when Americans die, but who see suicide bombers who kill Israelis and believe that that is just part of the negotiating process. -- Alan Keyes
I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputation. That's just an added benefit. I believe it's a responsibility, and there is no negotiating on responsibilities. -- Ursula Burns
It was a way to try and shut down what the unions were negotiating for, like better hours and pay. [Dalton] Trumbo and his friends joined the Communists mostly for these reasons. -- Jay Roach
When dealing with Canadians, it is advantageous to seem to be negotiating from a position of weakness, for when faced with an abject opponent, they become concession-happy and will accede to almost anything. -- Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens
The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where the fault for past negotiating failures lies, there is no other path. -- Anthony Lewis

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