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Samantha Power
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 21
Diplomat
Director For Multilateral Affairs
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
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Writer
London
England
Samantha Jane Power
Samantha J. Power
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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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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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Every working mother struggles with the BlackBerry, knowing the boss can call.
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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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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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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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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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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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Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.
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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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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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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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First, recognize the mistake. The main thing is taking responsibility and being authentic.
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Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
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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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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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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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I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
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We need to find means for cooperation.
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