Democratic Accountability Quotes by Samantha Power

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…

— Samantha Power

Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.

— Samantha Power

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

— Samantha Power

All we talk about is 'Islamic terrorism.' If the two words are associated for long enough it's obviously going to have an effect on…

— Samantha Power

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

— Samantha Power

Initially, I tried to become an aid worker and someone who could help people, but I was unsuccessful in convincing anyone that I could…

— Samantha Power

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

— Samantha Power

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

— Samantha Power

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

— Samantha Power

President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

— 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 have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that…

— Samantha Power