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
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.
israel people citizens
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
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.
way needs palestinian
We need to deter the Palestinians in any way we can.
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.
country war leader
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.
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.
atrocities tools mass
We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
country government rights
The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.
reasoning statesmen examining
Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
country pure altruism
Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
keys giving reform
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.
missing constitution documents
I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.