Top 323 Agreements Quotes & Sayings

Requiring forced arbitration agreements limits consumer rights and protections.

Agreements are always the product of time and place.

You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department of Commerce and favorable agreements with our friends and neighbors across the globe.

That means we get other countries to play by our rules. You add up all the countries that we have trade agreements with, we have a surplus with them. You add up the countries we do not have a trade agreement with, that`s where a massive trade deficit comes from. So our goal is to get free trade agreements, and that means we get other countries to play and live by our rules so we can level the playing field.

The interests behind fracking are very powerful and they've managed to control the dialogue for a while, because they have forced people to sign disclosure agreements; people who have had negative experiences who are not able to speak out because they've signed disclosure agreements with the gas companies. Things like this. They've managed to strangle the opposing viewpoint, but it does seem like the people who are against fracking have started to gain some traction and the realities of what an environmental nightmare it is are starting to become known.

Using the greatest business people in the world, which America has, I am going to turn our bad trade agreements into great trade agreements.

Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

We are in the process of negotiating an agreement with the United States. We will be negotiating agreements with India and China. We are in the process of negotiating an agreement with Mercosur, South America. So there are a number of these trade agreements in the major markets of the world.

Words and prayers are powerful agreements, and you need to see what kind you are using every day.

I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements.

I do believe that international trade agreements benefit both nations, always.

If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.

Arbitration clauses have become prevalent in most corporate agreements or contracts for employees.

Our flag represents every American and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements.

Trade agreements influence the standards, protections and regulations that shape the kind of society we live in.

I think that both Russia and other international actors, including those who are more actively engaged in the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis (that is the Federal Republic of Germany and France, the so-called Normandy Quartet, certainly, with close involvement of the United States, and we have intensified our dialogue on this issue), we should all be committed to the full and unconditional implementation of the agreements that were achieved in Minsk. The Minsk Agreements have to be implemented.

Under the international agreements, the Russian peacekeepers are committed to protect the population of South Ossetia.

The Hungarian interest is that, if necessary, we should make loan agreements with the IMF on a regular basis.

The only way we know we love ourselves and the people in our life is by the agreements we are willing to make and keep

Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export.

I've seen the impact of poorly negotiated trade agreements on manufacturing in Maine.

The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself.

If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive.

The companies move labor to the lowest-cost markets. And so I don`t - I used to support these agreements. In the Congress, I lost the AFL-CIO endorsement a few years because I supported them. But when middle class incomes are declining, these agreements don`t work well for America.

While trade agreements are negotiated in secrecy, behind-closed doors, we have learned enough from leaks to know that the result of passing TPA to 'fast track' these trade agreements would affect everything from food safety to environmental protection to consumer financial protections.

This conclusion of trade agreements that go beyond the scope of mere tariff agreements, customs agreements, are most important and I'm very pleased we were able to bring this to fruition between Canada and the E.U. We've made great progress, particularly if we look at one of the great global issues, namely climate protection, without the engagement of the current administration under the leadership of Barack Obama, this Paris agreement would never have come about.

This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.

Trump said we got snookered. That those agreements like NAFTA were the worst agreements ever and suggested that our trade negotiators were snookered by these smart negotiators from Mexico or Africa. It is laughable. I have watched these trade negotiations. We got what we wanted.

If we're going to do trade agreements, as we should, we need trade agreements with rules that will lift up all boats, rather than continuing to pull down U.S. food safety standards, U.S. worker wages, environment, all that these job losses and all that this has done to pull down our standards.

We can license our intellectual property to new customers and expand agreements with existing ones over time and more.

Hamas must agree to first recognize Israel, second to end all violence, third to accept past agreements. Try to find a mention of the fact that the United States and Israel reject all three of those. They obviously don't recognize Palestine, they certainly don't withdraw the use of violence or the threat of it - in fact they insist on it - and they don't accept past agreements, including the road map.

Make fair agreements and stick to them

Most of the independent films I've been involved with all had European subsidy or co-production agreements.

To love unconditionally requires no contracts, bargains or agreements.

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.

If every country's climate policy was driven purely by environmental science, we may have no need for international agreements.

[Iran agreement] is one of the worst agreements I've ever seen drawn by anybody.

I absolutely trust Hillary Clinton to stand strong on trade agreements.

German equality of rights is the prerequisite for any participation on Germany's part in international conventions and agreements.

If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

No minister should be able to whisk through Parliament agreements that are negotiated behind closed doors.

Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

...find the courage to break those agreements that are fear-based and claim your personal power.

In Illinois, we've seen job losses from agreements like CAFTA and NAFTA. Those agreements didn't help American workers - and they haven't brought improvements to the lives of workers in other countries, either.

Critics of NAFTA and CAFTA warned at the time that the agreements were actually a move toward ... an eventual merging of North America into a border-free area. Proponents of these agreements dismissed this as preposterous and conspiratorial. Now we see that the criticisms appear to be justified.

By...WWII, I.G. Farben had become...part of the most gigantic and powerful cartel of all history...interlocking agreements...over 2,000 of them...In the US, the cartel had established important agreements with

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

I have disagreements with some and more agreements with others. But that doesn't mean I cannot listen to those I disagree with.

We have fulfilled all our agreements and all the conditions set by the IMF better than any other state.

Globalization exists but we shouldn't conflate globalization with trade agreements. Trade agreements is how we can shape globalization.

I agree with [Donald] Trump: These trade agreements have not been good deals for America, and they need to be fixed.

We need to deport these criminals and negotiate agreements requiring that they do their time in their own countries.

To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading.

Free trade agreements are never for one sector alone.

When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements.

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

There is no such thing as justice or injustice among those beasts that cannot make agreements not to injure or be injured. This is also true of those tribes that are unable or unwilling to make agreements not to injure or be injured.

In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ones.

Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary to negotiate new agreements that would be even more mutual and beneficial, until eventually the Native Americans were able to perceive the vast mutual benefits of living in rock-strewn sectors of South Dakota.

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.