Barry Gardiner Quotes

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

International negotiation has a nasty tendency to remind its practitioners that the laws of gravity affect them, too, and that international life is a two-way street in which one may have to give in order to get.

The first rule of negotiations is that normally you have to give to get.

That's what happens in the world. You get offered superior contracts.

In a world where global politics is no longer a zero-sum game, it is - or should be - counterintuitive to pursue one's interests without considering the interests of others.

What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?

It was good for the Japanese. It was good for the Russians, and it was good for me.

The art of government is the art of negotiating and compromise.

Boundary and peace treaties are not inspired documents.

You must have a majority to make peace, not just a good idea.

Anyone who has ever negotiated an agreement knows that in order to get it, you have to be willing to walk away from the table..

That’s the trick in any negotiation. Getting to yes means getting the other party satisfied that its interest are being met sufficiently…. You both got to get something out of it that your prepared to fight for at home.

Whichever country we are talking to, we are concerned with economic cooperation, how to deepen our mutual dependence, how to find new areas of win-win.

Deals really have to do with the overlap of what one side wants and the other side wants, and it's really just the discovery of where that overlap is and how you decide to get there.

Compromise is part of how we get things done.

Everything is a negotiation. Everything is a little bit of give and take.

Part of diplomacy, the hard work of diplomacy is trying to extract whatever concessions you can get, and giving something the other side wants. Of course you've got to try to make peace with, and work with those who are your adversaries, but you don't just rush in, open the door, and say, "Here I am. Let's talk and make a deal."

Business deals are successfully negotiated every day throughout America. The common thread is a mutual desire to reach an accord. And the media business is no different.

Politics and more politics - that's how you work towards the building of agreements.

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.

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

Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.