53+ Samantha Power Quotes On Education, Enemies And Ukraine

Samantha Power was the Director for Multilateral Affairs under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. She was the youngest member of the President's cabinet and was responsible for leading the U.S. foreign policy agenda in the United Nations, Africa, human rights, and global development. She was also a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a strong advocate for human rights, women's rights and refugee protection. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Samantha Power on education, enemies, ukraine.

Top 10 Samantha Power Quotes

1. Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.
2. What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.
3. Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.
4. My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
5. Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.
6. 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.
7. Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
8. American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.
9. I'm going to Washington on a fateful, even historic, mission. I feel that I am an emissary of all Israel's citizens, even those who do not agree with me, and of the entire Jewish people
10. There is a convergence of crises that makes it challenging to keep the world's attention.

Samantha Power Short Quotes

• I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
• I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
• I think the point that we all agree upon is that we have to engage with Russia.
• One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.
• Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
• Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
• Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
• We need to find means for cooperation.
• When I wake up in the morning, I think about Syria.
• I think about Syria when I go to bed at night.

Samantha Power Quotes About Ways

If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned. — Samantha Power

We need to deter the Palestinians in any way we can. — Samantha Power

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

Samantha Power Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Samantha Power

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

'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent. — Samantha Power

Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment. — Samantha Power

In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore. — Samantha Power

India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability. — 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

International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police. — Samantha Power

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

When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause. — 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

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

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

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. — Samantha Power

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. — 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

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

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

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

The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights. — Samantha Power

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

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

It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter. — Samantha Power

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

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. — Samantha Power

Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable. — 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

You've got to deploy serious political assets around a plan [in Darfur]. And the George W.] Bush administration has never had a plan. Ever. The Europeans don't want to do anything, saying, "The Americans are in charge of that." And in fact the Americans are in charge of naming it and bringing these resolutions every few weeks to the Security Council. — Samantha Power

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

Life Lessons by Samantha Power

1. Samantha Power has taught us to always strive for justice and fairness, no matter the situation. She has demonstrated that it is possible to make a difference in the world through diplomacy and hard work. Finally, she has shown us that it is important to stay true to one's values and beliefs, even in the face of adversity.