Richard Grenell Quotes

Two-thirds of the American people realize just how bad the nuclear deal is with Iran.

Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together.

Fundamentally, we have to recognize that Iran is not a partner.

I don't believe Iran is a suicide state.

The nuclear deal with Iran's radical clerics and their military junta is the most dangerous and potentially deadly action that the Obama administration has yet taken.

The best example of Obama's success in foreign policy is Iran.

We can pursue peaceful diplomacy with the Iranian regime while also continuing our maximum economic pressure campaign, while also defending ourselves... To say that it's a war with Iran or nothing is just a fundamental misunderstanding of how foreign policy actually works.

I do think it's fair to say that there are times when President Obama has not been engaged enough with the Middle East.

The Iranian regime has been terrorizing the Middle East for 40 years. They've been the aggressor for 40 years. And finally this president, President Donald J. Trump, said 'enough is enough.'

Another mess I inherited, and we have imposed new sanctions on the nation of Iran who has totally taken advantage of our previous administration, and they're the world's top sponsor of terrorism, and we're not going to stop until that problem is properly solved, and it's not properly solved now.

What is it between Obama and Iran? That's the question we all ought to have. Because it sure seems to me like Obama's got some sort of affection for that nation.

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

When we see a lack of leadership coming from the White House, that's what brings leaders in Turkey to attack Israel the way they do. When we see a lack of leadership coming from the White House, that's why we see the leader of Iran... continuing to build the nuclear reactors.

We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.

We must make every effort to neutralize this threat peacefully, but be ever mindful of the growing danger Iran poses not just to a safe and free America, but to our allies abroad.

When it comes to the Middle East, this is always a very difficult issue for any American president.

By linking these countries together in his 'axis of evil' speech, President Bush implied an identity between them not only in terms of their threat, but also in terms of the action necessary to deal with the threat. A lot of work will now need to be done to delink the three, and to show why military action against Iraq is so much more justified than against Iran and North Korea.

Axis of Evil

I could have been very popular if I had launched a military attack on Iran but I chose patience.

U. S. Foreign Policy is usually largely reactive.

We can deal with Iran if it is a nation but not if it is a cause.

The war in Afghanistan is not of a peace with the rest of Obama's worldview. It's a holdover from the era that his election was supposed to bring to a close.

There is an increasing demand that the president and Secretary Hull get rid of the unteachable group in the State Department of men who have not learned, after ten years of experience, that appeasement has never worked anywhere, at any time.

Trump's opinions on the Iraq War have been as erratic as his opinions on other foreign policy matters - such as his careless position to think more countries should acquire nuclear weapons.