Jesse Jackson Quotes

Negotiations take time.

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

A huge amount of negotiations and diplomacy has nothing to do with bartering or arguing but is just trying to get everyone [doing the negotiating] on the same page. It takes yours, days, even weeks sometimes.

Jaw jaw is better than war war.

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

Negotiating is a little like jazz. You improvise on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you’re not always sure how to get there.

Success of negotiations cannot be guaranteed. If there is no attempt, then failure is guaranteed.

Conflict resolution cannot be merely about eliminating all opposition or reducing the choices in negotiating the problem to two mutually exclusive sets of rights and wrongs. Rather, it must consist of laboring to bring everybody to accept reality and then to project a future with this understanding as the foundation.

It’s hard to cut a deal if you don’t know who to make a deal with.

Choose the path of dialogue rather than the path of unilateral decisions.

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

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

We will not change in matters of policy until such time as dialogue has begun.

You can't end negotiations unless you begin them. And you can't begin them if you continually negotiate about the terms to begin negotiations.

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

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

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

The only thing you think of is that you are in the middle and that you've got to find a way to stop it.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

Agreements are always the product of time and place.

I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are.