Richard Grenell Quotes

The way you change foreign policy is by raising the domestic political cost of the policy.

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

When Hillary served as Secretary of State, I watched her partner with President Obama to restore our country's reputation around the world.

Personally, I think Mitt Romney would be a great secretary of state.

I fully, fully concede that Secretary Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of State for four years, has more experience - hat is not arguable - in foreign affairs.

Rudolph Giuliani will be the first Secretary of State whose last public office was mayor, the most thoroughly domestic public office that we have.

The world of high-stakes international diplomacy can be rough and tumble, but it's more often than not a procession of suits and summits, protocol sessions and photo ops.

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

Ambassadors are, by definition, foreign bodies.

Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.

I think that the president of Iran has the authority wherever which - where - wherever the national interests of the country are involved and, when it is necessary and expedient and required to speak and talk with others in order to promote the rights of its nation, that the president can take that initiative.

I shall have to depend upon you for taking care of these matters of foreign affairs, of which I know so little, and with which I reckon you are familiar.

The first thing a diplomat has to do is understand the domestic politics of foreign states.

I’d be happy to take any of your questions and with the advantage of no longer being Secretary of State so that I can actually answer them.

The President of the United States was untutored in foreign policy. He didn’t know Slovenia from Slovakia.

This President is a miserable failure on foreign policy.

One is treading on very delicate ground when you have to consider the public opinion in China, Japan, the League of Geneva, and at home. It is pretty hard to avoid using a word which may arouse unintended repercussions in one or the other of those half a dozen localities

The major role of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is not legislative; it is educational.

Foreign policy mandarins often wish the public would leave them alone so that they can get on with the serious business of statecraft.

English [foreign] policy is to float lazily downstream, occasionally putting out a diplomatic boat-hook to avoid collisions.

My dog Millie knows more about foreign affairs than these two bozos.

We have normal relations with lots of countries whose leadership we do not like..

I talk a great deal to prior Secretaries of State about policy issues.

Let's go to Russia. She [Hillary Clinton] went to the Kremlin on her very first visit and gave them that stupid symbolic reset button.

No secretary of state has been more wrong more often and in more places that Hillary Clinton. Her decision spread death, destruction, and terrorism everywhere she touched.