Their efforts are a tribute to democracy and an example that difficult problems can be solved peacefully through debate, negotiation and compromise.
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The doors for negotiation are open and we can still find a formula to reach a conclusion.
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The Science of Government it is my Duty to study, more than all other Sciences: the Art of Legislation and Administration and Negotiation, ought to take Place, indeed to exclude in a manner all other Arts. I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine.
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If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation-and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
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Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
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We, as a presidency and a government, will continue our commitment to the negotiation process as the sole political, pragmatic and strategic choice through which we reap the fruit of our struggle and sacrifices over the long decades.
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Short-circuiting the long-established principles of patient negotiation leads to war, not peace
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Negotiation may cost far less than war, or infinitely more: for war cannot cost more than one's life.
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