[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
It is not a process of bargaining or give-and-take. The peace process is not about giving concessions. We will not allow any… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If we are to reach a situation of true peace, real peace, peace for generations, we will have to make painful concessions.… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
When dealing with Canadians, it is advantageous to seem to be negotiating from a position of weakness, for when faced with an… — 1st Baron St Helens Alleyne FitzHerbert Copy Share Image
I believe that I am more conservative than George W. Bush. However, it is important to note that he has had to… — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
From her concession speech: Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have… — Haley Barbour Copy Share Image
I don't trust politicians. I think that by the time they've made it, with the concessions they've had to make in that… — Rick Astley Copy Share Image
We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection. — Eugenie de Guerin Copy Share Image
The basic struggle today is not between individualism and collectivism, free enterprise and socialism, democracy and dictatorship. These are only the superficial… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Capital, never concerned with distribution, is now less and less concerned with production. Capital is driving for power, for the control over… — Eric Kierans Copy Share Image
The most amazing thing I've ever seen was Jay Johnstone, in uniform, in line at a concession stand in Dodger Stadium after… — Fred Claire Copy Share Image
What is needed [to combat terrorism], in my view, is resolve, not retreat; courage, not concession. Rather than thinking in terms of… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
When a man really believes that it is necessary to do a certain thing to be happy forever, or that a certain… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If we do not defend ourselves none will defend us; if we yield we will be more and more pressed as we… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of concessions that will… — Robert Cialdini Copy Share Image
There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
It's not Africa that is destroying the African rainforest, it's selling concessions to timber companies that are not African, they are from… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image