Richard Grenell Quotes

The United Nations is an indispensable but deeply flawed organization. It is valuable to the United States, and the United States is invaluable to it. We need to reform it.

Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.

We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not.

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.

The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.

India seeks to be a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council... things like this don't happen automatically, you need constant dialogue and discussion with the world.

The logic of collective security is flawless, provided it can be made to work under the conditions prevailing on the international scene... The odds, however, are strongly against such a possibility.

I look forward to strengthening the U.S.-U.N. partnership and working closely with Secretary of State Kerry towards our shared goals of peace, development, and human rights.

But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long way in a direction that I do not like very much.

The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.

The League is dead; long live the United Nations.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

Just as the United States doesn't like others to take charge, other countries also don't like the United States to play a dominant role in the United Nations.

The United Nations is a failed institution in its current form.

Without the U. N., world politics is inconceivable.

… unless the United Nations stops becoming simply a debating society for anti-American rhetoric, I'm going to show them the door.

The United Nations is a means. It is not an end for American foreign policy.

America must always lead on the world stage.

Even allies don’t share every single interest that you have. That’s a law of nature in the international system. They will tell you most of what you need to know but there may be some things that they don’t tell you that you need to know in order to formulate your policy as wisely as you can.

People think that it only takes an American decision to solve this or that problem [in foreign affairs].

Both Russia and the United States are struggling to define their proper roles in the world.

The U.N. system, born after the Second World War, collapsed. It's worthless.

I do believe American leadership in the world matters, that we can't just disengage from the world.

Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems. A major country like the United States has to have a broadly-conceived program for effective international action, influence and cooperation with others.