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Samantha Power Inspirational Quotes (39)

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In general, my rule is find out where your heart is, then speak from the heart. People know the difference between that and something scripted.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.
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I'm going to Washington on a fateful, even historic, mission. I feel that I am an emissary of all Israel's citizens, even those who do not agree with me, and of the entire Jewish people
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Every working mother struggles with the BlackBerry, knowing the boss can call.
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I happen to miss the Constitution I thought it was a good document.
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The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.
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I think the point that we all agree upon is that we have to engage with Russia.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.
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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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Engaging Iran won't guarantee improved U.S.-Iranian relations or a more stable Gulf region. But not engaging means more of the same.
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Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
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Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.
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Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
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I joke that I spent 38 years scouring the globe, going to war zones, trying to find the person with my exact birthday.
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I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
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When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.
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My second epiphany came as an intern at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The man I worked for was consumed with what was going on in Bosnia. And the more I knew [about it] the more saddened I was. There were these images of emaciated men behind barbed wire.... It was like, I've got to find a way to do something.
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American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.
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International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.
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We have an interest in combating tactics in war that are abhorrent and that only fuel terrorism because they incite people on the ground.
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Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.
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We need to find means for cooperation.
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