Samantha Power

I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.

— Samantha Power

All advocacy is, at its core, an exercise in empathy.

— Samantha Power

When I wake up in the morning, I think about Syria.

— Samantha Power

I think about Syria when I go to bed at night.

— Samantha Power

We need to find means for cooperation.

— Samantha Power

Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

— Samantha Power

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

— Samantha Power

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

— Samantha Power

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

— Samantha Power

In general, my rule is find out where your heart is, then speak from the heart. People know the difference between that…

— Samantha Power

Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.

— Samantha Power

Every working mother struggles with the BlackBerry, knowing the boss can call.

— Samantha Power

We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future…

— Samantha Power

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

— Samantha Power

I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should…

— Samantha Power

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

— Samantha Power

When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate…

— Samantha Power

The U.N. brings everybody together. And without it, we can't deal with Ebola or terrorism or climate change. But it's 70 years…

— Samantha Power

I'm relieved that after all these years of doing atrocity work, I still cry my eyes out every time I read the…

— Samantha Power

We, as Americans, have an interest in ensuring that the only people who get to vote for our elected leaders are our…

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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…

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For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the…

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There is a fair amount of competition, obviously, with ISIL and the terrorist networks around the world, China also posing a different…

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The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did…

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Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States,…

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My second epiphany came as an intern at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The man I worked for was consumed with…

— Samantha Power

You've got to deploy serious political assets around a plan [in Darfur]. And the George W.] Bush administration has never had a…

— Samantha Power

I was interning in the CBS sports affiliate in Atlanta with Robin Roberts… I was taking notes on a Braves-Padres game, and…

— Samantha Power

I think that the only time we will really know what then-President Trump is going to do about the set of challenges…

— Samantha Power

You could be in the United Nations office all night every night and still feel like you were not making a sufficient…

— Samantha Power

Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a…

— Samantha Power

I tell young people: If you make a job choice on the basis of something other than your nose or your gut,…

— Samantha Power

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

— Samantha Power

We are responsible for our incredulity.

— Samantha Power

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

— Samantha Power

“By 2003 he had begun to worry that powerful countries were pursuing their own security in ways that aggravated their peril. He”

— Samantha Power

I was extremely close to my father, inseparable. Where we hung out most of the time was the pub.

— Samantha Power

I think the point that we all agree upon is that we have to engage with Russia.

— Samantha Power

Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

— Samantha Power

Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

— Samantha Power