We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

I think placing preconditions before negotiations is the quickest way to undermine peace.

You can't end negotiations unless you begin them. And you can't begin them if you continually negotiate about the terms to begin negotiations.

They are fomenting many of these demonstrations, and they are not preventing them,

We would not have felt that [negotiations] had reached a roadblock. We were certainly at a point where we had a gap in his expectations and our comfort level. Whether or not we would have been able to close that gap, I'm not sure. But we felt we were in productive contract negotiations.