#agreement

It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#backed #break #consider #force #heavy

There have been major disagreements within the European Union. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#disagreements #european #european union #major #union

Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust. ↗

— Mitchell Reiss

#any #based #going #intentions #korea

It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#agreement #always #arbitrate #argue #between

Third, we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade, there will be unmistakable consequences. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#america #cheat #consequences #forging #make

I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#agreement #am #board #broad #capitals

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#anything #come #disagree #find #get

In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#arms #before #both #carter #control

As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it. ↗

— Sanjay Kumar

#before #big #customers #go #hit

I repeat my demand that the occupier leave the land of our beloved Iraq unconditionally, without retaining bases or signing agreements. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#bases #beloved #demand #i #iraq