Richard Grenell Quotes

Richard Grenell

Profession : Diplomat

Birth : September 18, 1966

Cancer taught my family that my mom is much stronger than we ever thought. Faced with a devastating diagnosis, she just kept going and living - never complaining.

Richard Grenell

Without American leadership at the U.N., countries just continue to talk and socialize and spend taxpayer dollars.

Richard Grenell

It is hard to know exactly when the Arab Spring, a phrase used to describe the beginning of the Arab peoples' demand for democracy and human-rights reform, started.

Richard Grenell

No one really disagrees that all of humanity has a responsibility to protect fellow citizens in a time of need.

Richard Grenell

Activists create nonprofits for the sole purpose of suing their enemies, collecting a settlement check, and paying lawyers to find the next frivolous lawsuit.

Richard Grenell

I think what you are supposed to be when you are young is idealistic and passionate.

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I'm passionate about politics.

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I spent eight years at the U.N., so I understand that U.S. ambassadors have a lot of issues to cover.

Richard Grenell

There is no way to expect one ambassador to cover all of the U.S. government's priority issues, and certainly there are a plethora of U.N. meetings that drag on with an unlimited number of speakers and no time limits.

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Very few teachers or leaders in my small Michigan community ever discussed the issue of 'The Catcher in the Rye,' and certainly no one came to the 1951 Novel's defense.

Richard Grenell

Between 1961 and 1982, 'The Catcher in the Rye' was the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States. But all the talk about banning it made me rush out to find it.

Richard Grenell

'The Catcher in the Rye' was targeted by some schools as a book too risque to read and certainly not appropriate for young minds. My parents certainly would not have approved of the book, but I secretly read it when I was in 7th grade. I felt so rebellious, and my young mind loved it.

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One of the reasons the American public holds unelected government officials in such low esteem is that they are never held accountable for their failures.

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Presidents and cabinet officials could send a strong message of accountability if they held senior appointees responsible for their performance.

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The Obama administration has been unable to call Jerusalem the capital of Israel because the Palestinians want to claim it as their capital in a future state.

Richard Grenell

The next time a news outlet complains about the state of our political rhetoric or the uninformed U.S. voter, we should promptly point them to the video of Ashley Parker raucous in a Polish cemetery or Philip Rucker's diatribes on party invitations.

Richard Grenell

The case against Susan Rice has been building for years with little fanfare. Not surprising, the mainstream media reporters based at the U.N. have either ignored her mistakes or strategically covered them up.

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Speaking out and challenging the status quo is seldom cheered at the UN.

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Nominating Susan Rice for Secretary of State is a mistake not just because of her Sunday show deceptions but because her tenure as America's representative to the U.N. has been unworthy of a promotion.

Richard Grenell

Hillary Clinton's Russian re-set policy gave Moscow permission to go from privately challenging U.S. foreign policy to publicly moving military hardware into Syria to prop up Bashar al-Assad and annexing Crimea from Ukraine. And Donald Trump seems to support the idea that Putin will be Putin. It's enough to leave America's allies confused.

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