These agreement quotes will inspire you. Agreement is a situation in which people share the same opinion or harmony or accordance in opinion or feeling; a position or result of agreeing.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging agreement quotes, agreement sayings, and agreement proverbs.
Best Agreement Quotes
- “I do believe that international trade agreements benefit both nations, always.” Phil Knight
- “The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.” Dan Kildee
- “Issues over same-sex marriage and LGBT people in the PCUSA are not new: there is a 40-plus year history of arguments and tacit agreements over the issue of sexuality in the denomination, and the first openly gay minister in the PCUSA was ordained in 2011.” Anthea Butler
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“From solar to electric cars, from geothermal to reconfiguring the grid, the scale of investment needed in green technologies in order to meet whatever agreements on emissions reductions are finally agreed will be immense.” Noreena Hertz
- “In the steel industry, the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.” John L. Lewis
- “I hope any government formed in Egypt will understand there is no choice but to maintain the framework of international agreements, which include the peace agreement with Israel.” Ehud Barak
- “Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues – including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.” Ban Ki-moon
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“In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim – that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.” George Mason
- “I try very hard to maintain the confidence of my sources by speaking candidly with them, honoring agreements about the use of our conversation, and practicing journalism in an honest and straightforward way.” John Harwood
- “As you know, in the latter part of 2008 and early 2009, the Federal Reserve took extraordinary steps to provide liquidity and support credit market functioning, including the establishment of a number of emergency lending facilities and the creation or extension of currency swap agreements with 14 central banks around the world.” Ben Bernanke
- “Equal pay for equal work is a fundamental concept of labor agreements.” Gabrielle Carteris
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“Patent battles have become a strong catalyst for mergers, reducing competition in various domains. The largest corporations, with gigantic patent portfolios, routinely enter into cross-licensing agreements with their largest competitors.” James Gleick
- “The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.” Mahmoud Abbas
- “Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.” Dan Kildee
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“Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements.” Werner Erhard
- “China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade… They don’t have any compliance or enforcement.” David Bonior
- “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.” Stephen F. Lynch
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“There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.” Sitting Bull
- “Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nation’s economy and not an exploitative one.” Brian Behlendorf
- “We can license our intellectual property to new customers and expand agreements with existing ones over time and more.” Rajeev Suri
- “I have seen businesses and government come together to provide women entrepreneurs with the training they need to better access markets, take advantage of trade agreements, and in the process grow businesses, jobs, and GDP. These are partnerships that transform lives.” Melanne Verveer
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“Consumers get used to reading and understanding their credit card contracts, their mortgages, their check overdraft agreements, those are good things. That puts power back in the hands of consumers.” Elizabeth Warren
- “Our engagement through international economics, trade, these trade agreements, is vital and is linked to our national security. This is a lesson we learned from the ’30s, it is a lesson we learned post-World War II, and it plays to our strengths.” Charles Boustany
- “Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read ‘The Four Agreements’, you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.” Don Miguel Ruiz
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“Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you’re not up late studying cap-and-trade agreements.” Maureen Dowd
- “In 2010, the Spanish constitutional court annulled a large part of the Catalan statute of autonomy negotiated between Catalonia and the previous prime minister, Jose Luis Zapatero. This demolished one of the main agreements achieved during the Spanish transition to democracy – Catalonia’s recovery of self-governance.” Carles
- Without Kissinger’s work in the Middle East, with Sadat especially, I doubt if the Camp David Agreements five years later would have happened. His achievements over detente, the seeds of trust he sowed in a very distrustful and hostile Moscow, helped over a long period.” Alistair Horne
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“In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ones.” Harvey Mackay
- “Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.” Chauncey Wright
- “Liberalized trade – in broadly multilateral, regional, or bilateral agreements – is a key ingredient in the recipe for prosperity… An absolute prerequisite for long-term economic growth is full participation in the global economy and trading system.” Kevin Hassett
- “If every country’s climate policy was driven purely by environmental science, we may have no need for international agreements.” Ali Bongo Ondimba
- “It is not in our interest to sign economic policy agreements with the IMF, as that unnecessarily limits the room to manoeuvre of… the Hungarian government, Hungarian parliament and lawmakers.” Viktor Orban
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“There’s no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence.” Mark Shields
- “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
- “If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect.” Jules Massenet
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“Arbitration clauses have become prevalent in most corporate agreements or contracts for employees.” Gretchen Carlson
- “Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.” Linus Pauling
- “Requiring forced arbitration agreements limits consumer rights and protections.” Conor Lamb
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“Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.” Lech Walesa
- “International regimes, international treaties, international norms are observed not because of the goodness of anybody but because they bring benefits. If they don’t, then the longevity of those agreements come into jeopardy.” Mohammad Javad Zarif
- “We can restore E.U. growth through reducing regulation, strengthening governance, pushing ahead with free trade agreements and strengthening the single market.” David Lidington
- “President Obama has been admirably pro-trade in public remarks, but there has been no progress in moving any new free trade agreements to expand exports abroad and create jobs at home.” Elaine Chao
- “The Transatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships have nothing to do with free trade. ‘Free trade’ is used as a disguise to hide the power these agreements give to corporations to use lawsuits to overturn sovereign laws of nations that regulate pollution, food safety, GMOs, and minimum wages.” Paul Craig Roberts
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“This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.” Wilhelm Keitel
- “The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It’s when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.” Ingrid Betancourt
- “Things are pretty good for NASCAR with our TV agreements behind us and so forth. For us it’s focusing on putting the best events and tightest racing that we can, making improvements on the track and investing in the amenities and fan experience.” Brian France
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“The bank bailout should have been more focused on helping small and medium sized banks, on helping homeowners. I think the trade agreements are a disaster.” Joseph Stiglitz
- “I have long believed these types of collaborative agreements are a far better approach to federal land management than the contentious battles that too often sidetrack proper resource management.” Mike Simpson
- “Trade agreements influence the standards, protections and regulations that shape the kind of society we live in.” Barry Gardiner
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“For about 125 years, give or take, the Canadian government has acted extremely badly – even in a way which should be called evil – breaking treaties, breaking agreements.” John Ralston Saul
- “To open up new markets and create American jobs, we need to make global bilateral free trade agreements a priority as they were under the Clinton administration.” Mark McKinnon
- “Ohioans, I think, in large numbers, have felt that the government has not been on their side in all of these issues: on pensions, on the cost of prescription drugs, on the health-care system generally, on jobs, on trade agreements.” Sherrod Brown
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“It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.” E. M. Forster
- “We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that… we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily.” Tom Daschle
- “The Hungarian interest is that, if necessary, we should make loan agreements with the IMF on a regular basis.” Viktor Orban
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“Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.” William McKinley
- “Unfair trade agreements, passed by both Republicans and Democrats, have sent millions of jobs to other countries. We need to stop this hemorrhaging and find ways for American workers to compete in the new market.” Russ Feingold
- “I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that are not enforced. It is time that we make China play fairly.” Elizabeth Dole
- “At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors.” Vicente Fox
- “The question of feasibility, the question of cost, the question of including partners elsewhere in the world, the question of the effect of this project on arms agreements – all these issues are in discussion.” Gerhard Schroder
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“Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs.” Charles E. Wilson
- “Our recent 5-year labor agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force.” Charles E. Wilson
- “Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.” Caspar Weinberger
- “But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty.” Donald Evans
- “Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with our experience of job loss that we have had there that when you find yourself in a hole that you might stop digging.” Stephen F. Lynch
