Samantha Power Quotes About Foreign Policy

Quotes about: Foreign Policy

• Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

  Samantha Power

  Foreign Policy, Enterprise, Policy

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

  Samantha Power

  Rights, Presidential, Political

• 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.

  Samantha Power

  Mean, Dreamer, Trying

• Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.... America's important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.

  Samantha Power

  Summer, War, Israel

  Interview with in Molly Lanzarotta, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, March 14, 2007.

• 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

  Order, Long, Justice

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