142 Quotes by Samantha Power
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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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There is a convergence of crises that makes it challenging to keep the world's attention.
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We need to deter the Palestinians in any way we can.
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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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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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In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.
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It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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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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