Samantha Power Quotes

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Samantha Power

Profession : Public Servant

Birth : September 21, 1970

I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.

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Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.

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One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.

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I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables?

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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

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The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.

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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

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There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.

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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.

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Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.

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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.

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International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

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The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.

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In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.

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No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

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Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.

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President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.

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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.

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I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.

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My career is not well thought out. Every choice has been instinctive and, quite literally, impulsive in many ways.

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