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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
Journalist
Pedagogue
Writer
London
England
Samantha Jane Power
Samantha J. Power
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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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As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.
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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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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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International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.
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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 about Syria when I go to bed at night.
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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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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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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 think the point that we all agree upon is that we have to engage with Russia.
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First, recognize the mistake. The main thing is taking responsibility and being authentic.
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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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I happen to miss the Constitution I thought it was a good document.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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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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In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.
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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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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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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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