Richard Grenell Quotes

Richard Grenell

Profession : Diplomat

Birth : September 18, 1966

While religious institutions should be able to pick and choose which unions they bless, civil governments should issue marriage licenses to all couples.

Richard Grenell

Equal rights should not be a partisan political issue - so why are all gay leaders in one political party?

Richard Grenell

One sure way to ruin American credibility in the Arab world is to sit silently in Damascus and look like you're part of the Assad show.

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China understands economics more than most countries and is usually moved to increase freedoms when the yuan is directly involved.

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Every once in a while, brave companies step out and act in ways that move customers and shareholders to also act in good faith.

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Federal employees are public servants, not partisan foot soldiers for President Obama, and shouldn't have to decide whether a partisan White House request can be ignored without consequences.

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Most people in Washington assumed if Obama made it to the White House he would appoint Biden as his secretary of state, a position Biden openly admitted he wanted.

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Biden's support for Mubarak in the face of his falling regime sends a powerful and unfortunate message to the Arab world that their freedoms are negotiable.

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While American interests in the Middle East must obviously be protected, America's credibility to support democracy for everyone everywhere is crucial.

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Tough decisions are never popular to make and even less popular to force upon the U.N.

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We may never really know if 2004 Democratic presidential nominee and Senator John Kerry was President Obama's original choice to be Secretary of State or if he settled on Kerry after his first pick, Susan Rice, was forced out by her troublesome career and misleading statements on the Benghazi terrorist attack.

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Ironically, Hillary Clinton's appointment in 2008 as secretary of state was forced on Obama by her presidential campaign supporters, who insisted she play a major role in the then-new Democratic administration after a bruising primary fight.

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John Kerry is going to have a rough tenure as secretary of state. But let's face it: whoever came after Hillary Clinton was going to have to deal with a foreign affairs press corps that has been sleeping for four years. From the moment Hillary entered Foggy Bottom, political reporters have treated their beloved secretary of state with kid gloves.

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The mainstream media decided long ago that Hillary Clinton was going to be a fabulous global leader regardless of how she performed.

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Foreign aid, though less than 1% of the annual federal budget, is often a hard case to make to constituents who are rightfully worried about domestic and economic issues.

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U.S. foreign aid must be used more strategically to achieve our national security goals.

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Foreign aid should not be automatic. Countries should have to make their case every year, and American officials should openly decide what, if anything, to fund.

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U.S. academics and Upper East Side New Yorkers like to think of the United Nations as a place where foreign ambassadors have intellectual discussions about power and world peace.

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While we all want the U.N. to live up to its original intent and be the place where the world comes together to solve international problems, the reality is the U.N. isn't all that different from any other political body. Countries and individuals play to the cameras, create good theatre, and negotiate selfishly.

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Too many members of the U.N. benefit from the status quo and won't make decisions for purely altruistic reasons.

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