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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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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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Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
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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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We need to find means for cooperation.
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I happen to miss the Constitution I thought it was a good document.
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One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.
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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 think the point that we all agree upon is that we have to engage with Russia.
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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'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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I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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Every working mother struggles with the BlackBerry, knowing the boss can call.
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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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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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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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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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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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In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.
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