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
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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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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Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.
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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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I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.
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One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.
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Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
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When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.