Richard Grenell Quotes

You'd make a great Secretary of State because State Department personnel don't answer questions completely either.

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

I have concluded that the U.N. can do a few things well.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man.

You ought to dialogue first before you start throwing spears. And I think the U.N. provides an opportunity for dialogue.

I might be an ambassador.

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.

Yasser Arafat was the epitome of gracious Arab hospitality. I must have had 1000 meals with him. The problem was that he could never translate that hospitality to negotiations.

Let him (the king) also appoint an ambassador who is versed in all sciences, who understands hints, expressions of the face and gestures, who is honest, skilful, and of noble family. Such an ambassador is commended to a king who is loyal, honest, skilful, possessing a good memory, who knows the proper place and time for action, who is handsome, fearless, and eloquent. For the ambassador alone makes kings' allies and separates allies; the ambassador transacts that business by which kings are disunited or not.

Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find those potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva

You do not build a foreign policy based on one man.

There is no way that any major international problem anywhere in the world can be solved efficiently with the United States sitting on the sideline.

Listen to others. Do not conduct foreign policy only according to your own ideology. Do not conduct foreign policy only with an eye on domestic politics.

No American ambassador has produced more Security Council Resolutions on the issue of Iran than John Bolton.

Diplomacy and coalition-building are hard work and not easy for any president.

When Barack Obama was running for president, he committed to leading the United Nations and other countries towards a common global goal. Obama believed that he could speak to allies and dictators directly and charm them into seeing the error of their ways.

While we need to provide leadership and stability to the world, we should do that through diplomacy.

António Guterres role as Secretary-General in bringing all powers together is very essential' and we hope he can succeed, it's not easy of course.

The Olympics is a time primarily for sport and celebration, but diplomacy does not stop at the door of the U.N., and for it to work, it must be sustained and consistent.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.