142 Quotes by Samantha Power

'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.

There is a convergence of crises that makes it challenging to keep the world's attention.

We need to deter the Palestinians in any way we can.

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.

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

In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.