Samantha Power
Samantha Power
Samantha Jane Poweris an Irish-American academic, author and diplomat who currently serves as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth21 September 1970
CountryIreland
military feelings lasts
My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
fighting violence criminals
Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.
rights presidential political
In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.
government want protection
What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.
military als election
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.
volleyball war college
'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.
challenges world attention
There is a convergence of crises that makes it challenging to keep the world's attention.
evil stories genocide
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.
summer war israel
Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.... America's important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.
ears concentration surgeons
No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.
reasoning statesmen examining
Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
missing constitution documents
I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
technology accountability innovation
India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
military government police
International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.