Newt Gingrich Quotes

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.

Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art.

I'm a compromiser and a maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.

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..

Compromise is part of how we get things done.

I will go anywhere, anytime, to meet with anyone to find common ground.

I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists. Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are dishonest, opportunistic, humiliating. Not in my vocabulary. In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".

You can never in negotiations be totally predictable. The minute you’re predictable, they’re going to figure out how to take advantage.

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

In any negotiation you have a wish list but then you proceed from where you can be.

A pragmatic sense of what will and will not play politically is a critical skill of a negotiator.

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.

One good thing about being in business is you learn to compromise. And so you learn to strike a deal that maybe isn't what you were looking for but is better than what you've got.

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.

Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain.

Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use.

To get people to compromise, you have to give them stuff.

If you have to compromise, be sure to compromise up.

Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.

Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are dishonest, opportunistic, humiliating. Not in my vocabulary.

I'm a great believer in compromises. I do not believe in capitulation.

For us, compromise never means surrender, but a step forward and some rest. That is all and nothing else.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

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

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.