Richard Grenell Quotes

A hit and run propagandist on the Kremlin model.

I set the propaganda machine in motion. Now we will see what the apparatus will do.

In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

I am talking about strategies that were developed, working with the Trump campaign. I really do believe that much of what you saw coming out of Trump's mouth was a play from Putin's playbook.

Amazingly, quite a few people, even some American conservatives, are taken in by Russian tactics.

Russia has a long history of propaganda and trying to influence various nation's cultures and elections. It's happening. They seem to have stepped up their game.

Vladimir Putin understood, from the Communist era when he was a KGB officer, that the Russian propaganda system of targeting Western media - that in the digital world, you could easily pull the Western media around by a nose ring.

Incomprehensible messaging is a very important part of Russian propaganda.

We have seen the corrupting effects of a deliberate propaganda campaign driven by fake news.

I do believe that Russia did and will continue to try and manipulate Americans' perspective on a whole variety of issues.

The Russians know that well executed disinformation, when exercised tactically, can quickly metastasize.

An information operations team was sent to Afghanistan to conduct various psychological operations on the Afghans and Taliban. The team was then asked not to focus on the Taliban but on manipulating senators into giving more funds and troops [to the war].

Aren't we in the midst of a blitzkrieg, for a lack of a better term, of informational warfare conducted by Russian trolls under the command of Vladimir Putin?

Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.

The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way.

Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive.

With the instrument of radio you can make public opinion. Perhaps even conquer a country.

The US has always taken velvet revolution into consideration by promoting Western culture in the society and by causing strife between people and the government through propaganda, organizing certain individuals, psychological warfare and making intentional use of media, intellectual circles, university student's establishments and feminism movements in order to implement its interfering policies.

We are in a battle, and more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media

Proprietary programming like news can be a great weapon.

Instead of debating whether or not Russia attempted to influence the 2016 elections - in ways that ranged from encouraging incorrect voting methods to promoting fake rallies to sharing false election stories - Americans should be debating how to counter this activity.

One might have thought that Brexit would be a wake-up call for the American media. Yet, just as in the U.K. referendum, 'Russia' became the buzzword in the U.S. election that the political and media establishments thought would scare people into voting for the status quo.

I think that Congress and its affiliates and journalists who support them have made trolling quite a sophisticated measure of intervention.