Richard Grenell Quotes

It’s not America’s job to fix the Middle East. Our job is to look after our own interests..

American interests dictate that we teach other peoples to govern themselves.

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

I don’t think America wants democracies in the Middle East. They wouldn’t be nearly as friendly to us

We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.

The best thing America can do to put the Middle East on a path that leads to more democracy, less terrorism, human rights and economic growth is to get the hell out of there while showing an absolute crystal clear determination to defend American interests with force whenever they are threatened.

I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all people.

It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.

Obama is cutting back on the idea that we're going to have Jeffersonian democracy in Pakistan or anywhere else.

Political preemption in the form of democracy promotion will be as important as the capacity for military preemption.

The real underlying vision of our foreign policy has been freedom.

Promoting democracy is one goal of U. S. foreign policy dating back at least 100 years. But it has always been one goal of many, often negated and outweighed by other competing interests.

The question of when you intervene is probably the toughest question of American foreign policy.

Preemption, democracy promoting and nation building have all been sullied by association by association with the War in Iraq.

America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

What some people argue is that Vietnam stands for the proposition that there's no role for American power anywhere on earth. I don't believe that's the case at all. I think we're the strongest force for democracy and for stability on earth, and we must have a strong capacity to perform that role.

Bush will keep up that policy that gives the United State the role of promoting freedom in the world.

The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.

And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up.

But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.

Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern.