Hillary Clinton Quotes

Simple logic dictates that if you cannot even conceive the possibility of leaving a negotiation, then it is preferable never to enter one.

Recesses [in negotiations] allow positions to become entrenched.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

In any negotiation, my goal is to be the most unreasonable person in the room.

Is anything more common in public negotiations than to begin with a higher demand, and that failing, descend to a lower?

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

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

One cannot negotiate under fire.

I think a great negotiator is an aggressive negotiator, and we're aggressive negotiators, We're not worried about someone coming at us.

Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.

With negotiations, you never know what's going to happen.

Sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can't make the right sort of settlement, so I'm aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me.

You know, you pick and choose your battles.

As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.

Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border.

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation.

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

The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.

You can't negotiate in public. People won't make concessions in public. They will do that in private. Like sausage making, you have to do it behind closed doors.

I'm not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so.

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.