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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.
There are no ultimatums for Renault other than we want to improve as quickly as we can.
Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.
It is absolutely unacceptable to talk to Russia - or anyone for that matter - in the language of ultimatums and coercive measures.
Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.
We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.
Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had.