Negotiation Breakdown Quotes

There was no authority with which diplomacy could deal.

We know enough about broken negotiations, secret preparations and the [Soviet] advantage gained from a long test series never to offer again an uninspected moratorium.

Rather than negotiate with the teachers’ unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them.

I will not comment [to the press] on the negotiations. Every comment produces an hour of recriminations [among the negotiators.]

Palestinian and Israeli leaders finally recover the Road Map to Peace, only to discover that, while they were looking for it, the Lug Nuts of Mutual Interest came off the Front Left Wheel of Accommodation, causing the Sport Utility Vehicle of Progress to crash into the Ditch of Despair.

I think that's coming to an end. And, you know, when we ... we can't beg them [russians] to get along with us. And I think there was some of that going on, which has now ended.

This is one of the gravest crises Europe has ever experienced... An agreement failed because of the completely stubborn attitudes of the UK and the Netherlands.

Recesses [in negotiations] allow positions to become entrenched.

Economic disputes are rarely the real cause of a strike. We do not have a strike because negotiations break down; negotiations break down because the situation is a strike situation.

The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern powder and feel Southern steel.

It has become increasingly clear to me that the White House is not interested in good-faith negotiations.

Of course, we will work towards that end. Of course, we will work to achieve this result. However, you have just mentioned the 1956 agreement, and one may recall that these negotiations were later terminated, in effect, on Japan's initiative.

Inter made an offer for me, but then their interest went cold.

If you’ve been negotiating for 6 or 7 months and people come up with new ideas, it’s very bad.

Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.

No deals with the Tories; it's war.

Instead of bringing it back and putting the money to work, because they can't work out a deal to - and everybody agrees it should be brought back.

With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is our fault. But we didn't kill Russian civilians by shooting down a civilian airplane. We didn't attempt to conquer an adjacent country to ours. We didn't walk out on negotiations and refuse to give a date for when we would resume.

If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle

We were in negotiations, but then the Japanese side suspended them unilaterally. Now, at the request of our Japanese partners, we have reopened these talks.

I would tell the Democrats in Washington who are trying to be civil with the "bipartisanship" to please stop and let the joker die once and for all, let the agents of chaos hit the pavement, stop picking them up.