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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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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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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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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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Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.
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Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
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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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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 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 think about Syria when I go to bed at night.
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Every working mother struggles with the BlackBerry, knowing the boss can call.
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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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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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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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'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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International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.
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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 happen to miss the Constitution I thought it was a good document.
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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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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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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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