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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
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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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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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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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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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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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First, recognize the mistake. The main thing is taking responsibility and being authentic.
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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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In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.
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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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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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Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.
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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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Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.
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I think about Syria when I go to bed at night.
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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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