"There’s a pretty compelling story that if you had a President Romney, you’d be in a different situation. For the first time since Jimmy Carter, we’ve had an American ambassador assassinated …
In Egypt and Libya and Yemen, again demonstrations, the respect for America has gone down. There’s not a sense of American resolve, and we can’t even protect sovereign American property."
- In an interview with the Washington Post’s Philip Rucker, Richard Williamson, a top foreign policy adviser to the Republican presidential nominee, suggested the deadly protests that claimed the life of Chris Stevens, the American ambassador to Libya, and three other U.S. diplomatic aides would not have happened if Mitt Romney were president.