Greg Grandin Quotes

The Mexicans bowed down when we talked about removing their foreign aid, and then they began cooperating with our country.

Dollar Diplomacy

We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our values and our ideals.

An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affecting the lives of its people - will require top-level attention and a great deal of energy. It should have three elements: aid, diplomacy, and financial disclosure.

Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now.

Sanctions are a sign of irritation; they are not the instrument of serious policies.

To be frank, I don't think President Obama gives much thought to Africa - or gives much to Africa.

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

Sanctions are not really an economic weapon.

It's not our business for the United States to sort out the other fellow's economic problems. We've got enough of our own.

When the United States comes with resources and ideas, people pay attention.

We need to plus-up the budget of the State Department, increase the amount of aid we give, and help the world through this difficult moment. That is the price of leadership.

It is a job requirement of U.S. envoys to El Salvador to be skilled in the art of the threat. And Aponte, named ambassador in 2010, is a pro. In particular, she's been tasked with making sure the former insurgent FMLN, which first won the presidency in 2009 and was reelected in 2014, reconciles itself to neoliberal reality.

America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.

Since 2010, Hillary Clinton's State Department, with the aid of Brazil, France, and Canada and in league with the Clinton Foundation and other 'philanthropists,' put into place something like a never-ending coup, an everlasting intervention.

If the government can afford luxury travel for its cabinet officials, then surely we can find the resources to invest in quality education, jobs skills training, and properly fund the State Department and foreign aid programs.

There was no pressure or blackmail from the U.S. I had no idea the military aid was held up.

Sanctions against such country as Russia are unlikely to be effective.

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.

I wonder about economic sanctions, though, since that is a way that states engage in boycotts against one another.

I rang Brian [Mulroney] up. I said, "What's this bloody nonsense. You've got a wheat trade with Iraq and you won't come aboard?" I said, "We've got a bloody big wheat trade too, so get your priorities right." And he said, "Okay, Bob. I'll come." I rang George and he was very appreciative.

Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade.

One of the problems with Marco's [Rubio] foreign policy is he has far too often supported Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama undermining governments in the Middle East that have helped radical Islamic terrorists.

What you do to China is you say if you don't behave we're going to have to start taxing your goods coming into our country.