Quotes About Arbitration

#1. Forcing victims of sexual harassment into secret arbitration proceedings is wrong because it means that nobody ever finds out what really happened.

Gretchen Carlson

#2. I was stealing all the bases, and when you had to go to arbitration they said, 'You know, only the big boys make the money.' So I got to try and figure out how to hit a home run, too.

Rickey Henderson

#3. Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#4. The corporations don't like open courts of law, trials by jury. They want to privatize by pushing people into compulsory arbitration where they win most of the time and the whole process is pretty secret.

Ralph Nader

#5. International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one

Ambrose Bierce

#6. At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

Richard Cobden

#7. Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.

Ludwig Quidde

#8. When two great powers disagree about anything - it doesn't matter what - they must find a way to settle it somehow by arbitration or by negotiation, not by war or threat of war.

Bertrand Russell

#9. Poor, dear old Mack, he was ninety-eight per cent perfect. His two percent failing was that he had absolutely no idea of the value or the power of arbitration. He was the veteran of a hundred battles, and I never once could say to the other fellow, 'Your dog started it.

William S. Hart

#10. The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Lawrence Durrell

#11. Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference.

Charles Albert Gobat

#12. Arbitration is private. It doesn't have the tools to dig into the corporate files. It's usually controlled by arbitrators who want repeat business from corporations not from the injured person.

Ralph Nader

#13. When a director writes, there's a compulsory arbitration. You have a right to challenge any of the arbitrators, but they pick three of four arbitrators who read all the drafts with no names attached and then allocate credit.

Harold Ramis

#14. Salary arbitration is probably in place - was put in place then and probably is in place now - because I supported it.

Bowie Kuhn

#15. On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.

Richard Cobden

#16. In the world of contract killings, there is no arbitration.

Kenneth Eade

#17. I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.

Chris Christie

#18. Final-offer arbitration should have great appeal for the daring (the risk seekers) who play against the timid (the risk avoiders).

Howard Raiffa

#19. Never arbitrate. Arbitration allows a third party to determine your destiny. It is a resort of the weak.

Attila The Hun

#20. If nobody is happy, then it's an equitable merger. - Maxim of airline seniority list arbitration

Robert Gandt

#21. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

Benjamin Franklin

#22. How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak.

Jean Sasson

#23. Both President Obama and I shared the conviction that territorial and maritime disputes in the Asia Pacific region should be settled peacefully based on international law. We affirm that arbitration is an open, friendly and peaceful approach to seeking a just and durable solution.

Benigno Aquino III

#24. Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#25. The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#26. Mandatory arbitration clauses I think, more often than not, work to the detriment of working people.

Thomas Perez

#27. I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

Herbert Read

#28. I have no problem with the arbitration process.

Mark Teixeira

#29. It may be that for a long time some nations will continue to fight each other, but the example of those nations who prefer arbitration to war, law courts to the battlefield, must sooner or later influence the belligerent powers and make war as unpopular as pugilism is now.

Randal Cremer

#30. Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.

Samuel Gompers

#31. Arbitration is justice blended with charity.

Nachman Of Breslov

#32. Doubtless you begin to understand how disagreeable it is to me to do a thing arbitrarily, when it is unsatisfactory to others associated with me.

Abraham Lincoln