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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.

Samantha Power

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Samantha Power
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 21
Diplomat
Director For Multilateral Affairs
Human Rights Activist
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Pedagogue
Writer
London
England
Samantha Jane Power
Samantha J. Power
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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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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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In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.
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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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I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
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I think about Syria when I go to bed at night.
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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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There's something beautiful about working in the one place in the world where the world is present, like United Nations. Otherwise, one would have to go to each of these countries to negotiate.
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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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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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In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore.
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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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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.
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I happen to miss the Constitution I thought it was a good document.
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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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Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
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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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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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