Initially, I tried to become an aid worker and someone who could help people, but I was unsuccessful in convincing anyone that… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Changing the DNA of a large, multilateral organization such as the United Nations to deal effectively with modern threats is not easy.… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
We have an interest in combating tactics in war that are abhorrent and that only fuel terrorism because they incite people on… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
I joke that I spent 38 years scouring the globe, going to war zones, trying to find the person with my exact birthday. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
You know, there is a long tradition in the U.S. of, um, promoting elections up to the point that you get an… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
I was working in the same building as U.S. News & World Report, and I banged on the door and said, "I'm… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was extremely close to my father, inseparable. Where we hung out most of the time was the pub. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
