Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
Quotations by Dean Acheson

Other quotes and quotations :

• The future comes one day at a time. Dean Acheson
• Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting. Robert Frost
• A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer. Dean Acheson
• Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. Dean Acheson
• Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools. Benjamin Disraeli
• Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent. Marvin Gaye
• The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle. Ely Culbertson
• Divorce. A resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries. Ambrose Bierce
• A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again. Carl Van Doren
• A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. Italo Calvino