Negotiate Quotes

Some people have an ability to negotiate. It's an art you're basically born with. You either have it or you don't.

Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He is weak and he is ineffective. So the only way he figures he is going to be reelected and as sure as you are sitting there, is to start a war with Iran.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.