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.
My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed. - Samantha Power
My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
- Samantha Power
Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places. - Samantha Power
Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable… - 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…
Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now. - Samantha Power
Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.
It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter. - Samantha Power
It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.
First, recognize the mistake. The main thing is taking responsibility and being authentic. - Samantha Power
First, recognize the mistake. The main thing is taking responsibility and being authentic.
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. - Samantha Power
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.
Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up. - Samantha Power
Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.
Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise. - Samantha Power
Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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