Samantha Power Quotes - Page 3

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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 kind of threat to the rules-based order.

  Samantha Power

  Order, Competition, Different

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Samantha Power

  Kids, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Samantha Power

  Morning, Thinking, Wake Up

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

  Samantha Power

  Thinking, Numbers, Effort

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We need to find means for cooperation.

  Samantha Power

  Mean, Needs, Cooperation

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Samantha Power

  Thinking, Law, United States

  "Ambassador Nominee Samantha Power On The Role Of The United Nations". Interview with Tom Jacobs, psmag.com. June 5, 2013.

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

  Samantha Power

  Country, Believe, United States

  Hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, www.unwatch.org. July 19, 2013.

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

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  Thinking, Long, Political

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• 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

  Atrocities, Tools, Mass

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

  Samantha Power

  Statesmen, Examining, Reasoning

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• As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.

  Samantha Power

  Country, War, Leader

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• Engaging Iran won't guarantee improved U.S.-Iranian relations or a more stable Gulf region. But not engaging means more of the same.

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  Mean, Iran, Guarantees

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• No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

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  Ears, Concentration, Surgeons

  "Samantha Power delivers commencement at Occidental College, June 11, 2011" by Andrew Glass, www.politico.com. June 11, 2012.

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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 not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.

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  Evil, Stories, Genocide

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

  Samantha Power

  President, Reputation, Republican

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

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  Government, Years, Police

  "The Enforcer" by Samantha Power, www.newyorker.com. January 19, 2009.

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• When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.

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  War, Vietnam, Realizing

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

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  Missing, Constitution, Documents

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• I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.

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  Mean, Dreamer, Trying

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