It's better to negotiate behind closed doors than it is to be out throwing rocks at one another in the public square.
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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.
Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.
The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.
We've heard a lot in recent polemic about how to win the fight for the corner office. But pushing up against a glass ceiling is practically a luxury when you consider the millions of women who can feel the floor dropping beneath their feet.
It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.
We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that.
I'm not big with negotiating.
It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.
I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.