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Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.
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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Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
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We need to find means for cooperation.
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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 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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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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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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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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'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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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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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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Every working mother struggles with the BlackBerry, knowing the boss can call.
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One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.
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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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