Samantha Power
Samantha Power
Samantha Jane Poweris an Irish-American academic, author and diplomat who currently serves as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth21 September 1970
CountryIreland
people affair public-service
Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
government want protection
What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.
rights presidential political
In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.
morning news easy
It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.
military feelings lasts
My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
foreign-policy enterprise policy
Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
order justice long
American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.
thinking people quality
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.
hypocrite rights historical
Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
fighting violence criminals
Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.
law investing investment
Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.
wisdom spring human-nature
Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.
silence neutrality acquiescence
Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.