Richard Grenell Quotes

American - Diplomat | September 18, 1966 -

U.S. foreign aid must be used more strategically to achieve our national security goals.

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Foreign aid should not be automatic. Countries should have to make their case every year, and American officials should openly decide what, if anything, to fund.

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Despite the debt, the traffic, the one-party rule, the taxes, and the eagerness of politicians to overwhelm small businesses and large corporate job producers with red tape and unnecessary regulations, the Golden State is still the most beautiful place to live and work in the United States.

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While migration is inevitable, the fact remains that most people leave their homes to escape violence and the certain persecution that comes from it.

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Foreign aid, though less than 1% of the annual federal budget, is often a hard case to make to constituents who are rightfully worried about domestic and economic issues.

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It is hard to know exactly when the Arab Spring, a phrase used to describe the beginning of the Arab peoples' demand for democracy and human-rights reform, started.

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U.S. academics and Upper East Side New Yorkers like to think of the United Nations as a place where foreign ambassadors have intellectual discussions about power and world peace.

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Tough decisions are never popular to make and even less popular to force upon the U.N.

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I think what you are supposed to be when you are young is idealistic and passionate.

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I'm passionate about politics.

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I spent eight years at the U.N., so I understand that U.S. ambassadors have a lot of issues to cover.

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There is no way to expect one ambassador to cover all of the U.S. government's priority issues, and certainly there are a plethora of U.N. meetings that drag on with an unlimited number of speakers and no time limits.

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