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You have more power than you know, Samantha. You just have to be brave enough to realize it.
— Adriana Mather
My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
— Samantha Power
In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.
— Samantha Power
I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.
— Samantha Power
Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
— Samantha Power
We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
— Samantha Power
It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.
— Samantha Power
Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.
— Samantha Power
Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.
— Samantha Power
The United Staes had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred,
— Samantha Power
Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
— 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
By 2003 he had begun to worry that powerful countries were pursuing their own security in ways that aggravated their peril. He
— 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
Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
— Samantha Power
What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.
— Samantha Power
Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
— Samantha Power
Engaging Iran won't guarantee improved U.S.-Iranian relations or a more stable Gulf region. But not engaging means more of the same.
— Samantha Power
President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
— Samantha Power
The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.
— Samantha Power
International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.
— Samantha Power
The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.
— Samantha Power
Putting the potential for damage into someone else's hands is scary. I have to have control, even if it is the power to self-destruct.
— Samantha Schutz
Hate is giving them too much power.
— Samantha Young
I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
— Samantha Power
We need to deter the Palestinians in any way we can.
— Samantha Power
Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
— Samantha Power
India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
— 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
There is a convergence of crises that makes it challenging to keep the world's attention.
— Samantha Power
Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
— Samantha Power
Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.
— Samantha Power