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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.

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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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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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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 think we do have an interest in combating states that try to cross borders and steal parts of other people's country.
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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 the point that we all agree upon is that we have to engage with Russia.
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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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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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'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.
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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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Every working mother struggles with the BlackBerry, knowing the boss can call.
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I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
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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'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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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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We need to find means for cooperation.
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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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First, recognize the mistake. The main thing is taking responsibility and being authentic.
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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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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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