Very few negotiations are begun and concluded in the same sitting. It's really rare. In fact, If you sit down and actually complete your negotiation in one sitting, you left stuff on the table.

Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way toward what happened in November, which was an electoral win with 49 states. And the sheer unnecessariness of the Watergate break-in is something that must have tormented him and his allies in all of the years that followed.

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

I am utterly opposed to all equivocation or obscure expressions in our public acts. We are bound to say plainly what we mean to say. If we mean negotiation and compromise, let us say it distinctly and plainly instead of sending to the President a resolution on which he may put whatever interpretation he pleases.

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

I think each negotiation should be based on what's the best decision - taking everything into account, not taking one thing into account.

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

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.

There are a lot of things behind a negotiation process.

I think, with a negotiation, you have to go in knowing what you want, knowing what your bottom line is, and knowing what you might accept if you're absolutely pushed.

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

Any negotiation on the basis of land for peace is a fatal mistake.

As someone who's built business, I take tariffs and their effects very seriously and would only employ such negotiation tools when absolutely necessary.

We recognize that NAFTA is a three-country agreement, and we need a three-country negotiation.

In the cloud, customers don't want a six-month contract negotiation; that concept is absurd when you can implement a cloud-based suite from beginning to end in a month or a few months.

The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.

The most dangerous negotiation is the one you don't know you're in.

What I really think of myself as is a person who's great at negotiation coaching and consulting.

Emotions aren't the obstacles to a successful negotiation; they are the means.

I don't want to stop and build protectionism out there, but I certainly don't mind tough negotiation with our trade partners.