Quotes by Samantha Power

Samantha Power

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

Justice

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Order

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.

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War

Being an occupier is not good for anybody’s global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.

Catalyst

Standing

Terrorist

Brokenness is the operative issue of our time – broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.

Broken

Heart

Issues

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

Long

Political

Thinking

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

Guarantees

Iran

Mean

From Richard Holbrooke – and I miss him every day – I learned two things. One, prioritization: Never take your eye off the longer-term reforms. The other thing is, he was a hell of a schmoozer! So I should take advantage of my Irish love of beer and gift of the gab, and build relationships. That’s a cherished part of the job, asking someone, “How did you get to be the Rwandan ambassador?” I try to take advantage of the fact that I hope to be here at least until the president’s term ends getting to know my colleagues.

Beer

Eye

Missing

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

Historical

Hypocrite

Rights

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

Constitution

Documents

Missing

I joke that I spent 38 years scouring the globe, going to war zones, trying to find the person with my exact birthday.

Jokes

Trying

War

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Genocide

Giving

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Quotes by Samantha Power

Samantha Power

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

Being an occupier is not good for anybody’s global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.

Brokenness is the operative issue of our time – broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.

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

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

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

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

I joke that I spent 38 years scouring the globe, going to war zones, trying to find the person with my exact birthday.

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