3 Quotes by Raymond Young

We do not expect the negotiations to break down this time, ... Members of the WTO agreed that some consensus should be reached on issues of subsidies and tariffs to agriculture and the service industry. We are prudently optimistic that some consensus will be reached.

People are still engaged in real negotiations. Before people were just posturing. Now they are aware the deadline is fast approaching and they need to narrow down the differences as quickly as possible.

I'm diabetic. I'm hanging in there. There are so many people so much worse off than me, you can just look around and see.