Latest Samantha Power Quotes from Interviews

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

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  Mother, Struggle, Boss

• From Richard Holbrooke - and I miss him every day - I learned two things. One, prioritization: Never take your eye off the longer-term reforms. The other thing is, he was a hell of a schmoozer! So I should take advantage of my Irish love of beer and gift of the gab, and build relationships. That's a cherished part of the job, asking someone, "How did you get to be the Rwandan ambassador?" I try to take advantage of the fact that I hope to be here at least until the president's term ends getting to know my colleagues.

  Samantha Power

  Eye, Beer, Missing

• First, recognize the mistake. The main thing is taking responsibility and being authentic.

  Samantha Power

  Mistake, Responsibility, Taking Responsibility

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

  Samantha Power

  Heart, People, Speak

• I get to be married to the liveliest mind I've ever encountered.... I hit the jackpot.

  Samantha Power

  Mind, Married, Being Married

• 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

  War, Trying, Jokes

• 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 to work out.... It's perilous to look ahead and be like, "I'd like to be ambassador." I would never have gone to Bosnia or spent years writing about genocide. Do it on the basis of what you can learn.... It's like falling in love. Your whole dating life, you're thinking, On the one hand, on the other hand. Then you meet the right guy, and you're not in list-making mode; you're just with the person you're supposed to be with. Jobs are like that too.

  Samantha Power

  Falling In Love, Love You, Writing

• My kids are my salvation.... It's a delight to walk in and get charged by a five-year-old and a two-year-old. That'll make you forget the darkness.

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  Kids, Darkness, Forget

• My favorite things in life are my children. If somebody wants to understand me, there's no better window into that than my children.

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  Children, Window, My Favorite

• As a journalist, I've felt as if it's a privilege that people share their stories and want you to be the messenger.... Even in my current job, when I go abroad, I'm racing to get back to the president and the secretary to share what I've seen.

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  People, Racing, President

• My second epiphany came as an intern at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The man I worked for was consumed with what was going on in Bosnia. And the more I knew [about it] the more saddened I was. There were these images of emaciated men behind barbed wire.... It was like, I've got to find a way to do something.

  Samantha Power

  Men, Wire, Carnegie

• I was working in the same building as U.S. News & World Report, and I banged on the door and said, "I'm ready to go." And they said, "What's your combat experience?" I said, "Does my parents' divorce count? It was pretty rough." Then they said, "What's your reporting experience?" And I said, "I covered the women's volleyball team in college exceptionally well." The guy was like, "You are so not ready to be a war correspondent."

  Samantha Power

  Volleyball, War, Team

• You could be in the United Nations office all night every night and still feel like you were not making a sufficient dent in the world's problems. I think the key is prioritization. But every job presents the tyranny of the inbox, of allowing the urgent to crowd out the important. So we have to have our lodestars.

  Samantha Power

  Night, Thinking, Office

• I was interning in the CBS sports affiliate in Atlanta with Robin Roberts.... I was taking notes on a Braves-Padres game, and on the live feed came footage of these kids protesting and getting crushed during the Tiananmen Square uprising in China in 1989. In that moment I became like a lot of young people in this country today, horrified and inspired but confused as to what I might do.

  Samantha Power

  Sports, Country, Confused

• There's something beautiful about working in the one place in the world where the world is present, like United Nations. Otherwise, one would have to go to each of these countries to negotiate.

  Samantha Power

  Beautiful, Country, World

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

  Samantha Power

  Morning, Thinking, Wake Up

  Source: www.pbs.org

• When I wake up in the middle of the night when I hear one of my kids coughing or crying, I think about Syria.

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  Kids, Night, Thinking

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

  Samantha Power

  Night, Thinking, Bed

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• I think that the only time we will really know what then-President Trump is going to do about the set of challenges that confront him is after he has sat down with his advisers as the commander in chief, when he's looking at the threats and the intelligence from the standpoint of being the number one decider, when he's hearing from his secretary of defense, his chairman, who was the same chairman President Obama had, Chairman Joe Dunford, who is an outstanding public servant, who has led our anti-ISIL effort, on which we're making great progress.

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  Thinking, Numbers, Effort

  Source: www.pbs.org

• We need to find means for cooperation.

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  Mean, Needs, Cooperation

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

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  Thinking, Russia, Agree Upon

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• We, as Americans, have an interest in ensuring that the only people who get to vote for our elected leaders are our citizens, and not some foreign people who think that they have an interest in skewing our election in one direction or another.

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  Thinking, One Direction, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• We have an interest in combating tactics in war that are abhorrent and that only fuel terrorism because they incite people on the ground.

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  War, People, Abhorrent

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• I think we do have an interest in combating states that try to cross borders and steal parts of other people's country.

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  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• There is a fair amount of competition, obviously, with ISIL and the terrorist networks around the world, China also posing a different kind of threat to the rules-based order.

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  Order, Competition, Different

  Source: www.pbs.org