Let us never
negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to
negotiate.
To the joy and pride of the whole army, a personal interview was refused, and instead of the Sovereign, Prince Dolgorukov, the victor at Wischau, was sent with Savary to negotiate with Napoleon if, contrary to expectations, these negotiations were actuated by a real desire for peace.
Why negotiate, and above all why retreat, when to retreat is so contrary to his method of conducting war?
I was so small that, in order to
negotiate the pail, I sat down and gathered it into my lap.
Petersburg, to
negotiate in his name as president of the American Fur Company, had, under sanction of the Russian government, made a provisional agreement with the Russian company.
Jack went out to get a napoleon changed, so as to have money suited to the general cheapness of things, and came back and said he bad "swamped the bank, had bought eleven quarts of coin, and the head of the firm had gone on the street to
negotiate for the balance of the change." I bought nearly half a pint of their money for a shilling myself.
He could conceal his heart; had more endurance; he could swim longer, and steer a canoe better than any of his people; he could shoot straighter, and
negotiate more tortuously than any man of his race I knew.
As the single gentleman after some weeks' occupation of his lodgings, still declined to correspond, by word or gesture, either with Mr Brass or his sister Sally, but invariably chose Richard Swiveller as his channel of communication; and as he proved himself in all respects a highly desirable inmate, paying for everything beforehand, giving very little trouble, making no noise, and keeping early hours; Mr Richard imperceptibly rose to an important position in the family, as one who had influence over this mysterious lodger, and could
negotiate with him, for good or evil, when nobody else durst approach his person.
Again, as Titus Livius noteth, in the case of Antiochus and the AEtolians, There are sometimes great effects, of cross lies; as if a man, that
negotiates between two princes, to draw them to join in a war against the third, doth extol the forces of either of them, above measure, the one to the other: and sometimes he that deals between man and man, raiseth his own credit with both, by pretending greater interest than he hath in either.
[run by President Clinton's former chief of staff John Podesta], continued: "During the 2006 elections, candidates across the country promised to give Medicare more market muscle by giving Medicare the power to
negotiate drug prices." After suggesting several methods of "bargaining with drug makers," Davenport stressed: "However it does so, Medicare should take care of drug prices."
By putting all of Sue's (Cejka's) years of experience on video, she showed me what happens in the real world for people who
negotiate job opportunities every day.
When Liverpool's own Ken Bigley was held hostage, I distinctly remember Straw and Blair saying they do not
negotiate with terrorists.