Quotes by Samantha Power

About Samantha Power:

Samantha Power is an Irish American academic, author and diplomat who currently serves as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
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History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.

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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

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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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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 de...

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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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The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.

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I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.

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Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.

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Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.

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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 goi...

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I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without being caught up in the political maelstrom.

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When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.

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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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You know, there is a long tradition in the U.S. of, um, promoting elections up to the point that you get an outcome you don't like. Look at Latin America in the Cold War.

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Author Bio

  • NameSamantha Power
  • DescriptionUnited States diplomat and Irish-American academic
  • BornSeptember 21, 1970
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Diplomat; Educationist; Writer; Human Rights Activist
  • WorksA Problem From Hell; Screamers
  • AwardsPulitzer Prize For General Non-Fiction; J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize; Time 100