Samantha Jane Power (born September 21, 1970) is an Irish-born American academic, author, political critic, and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017.
I get to be married to the liveliest mind I've ever encountered. . . . I hit the jackpot.
I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.
We need to deter the Palestinians in any way we can.
I joke that I spent 38 years scouring the globe, going to war zones, trying to find the person with my exact birthday.
I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
I tell young people: If you make a job choice on the basis of something other than your nose or your gut, it's unlikely to work out. . . . It's perilous to look ahead and be like, "I'd like to be ambassador. " I would never have gone to Bosnia or spent years writing about genocide. Do it on the basis of what you can learn. . . . It's like falling in love. Your whole dating life, you're thinking, On the one hand, on the other hand. Then you meet the right guy, and you're not in list-making mode; you're just with the person you're supposed to be with. Jobs are like that too.
President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
My second epiphany came as an intern at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The man I worked for was consumed with what was going on in Bosnia. And the more I knew [about it] the more saddened I was. There were these images of emaciated men behind barbed wire. . . . It was like, I've got to find a way to do something.
My favorite things in life are my children. If somebody wants to understand me, there's no better window into that than my children.
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.
Since 911, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.
We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
The U. S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.
Every working mother struggles with the BlackBerry, knowing the boss can call.
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.
American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.
I think we do have an interest in combating states that try to cross borders and steal parts of other people's country.