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Samantha Power Quotes

Irish - Public | September 21, 1970 -

Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbors, as their thirst for vengeance, their irredentism and their acceptance of violence as a means of generating change can turn them into future threats.

Change Good Future Community Turn

Sanctions did indeed help to bring Iran to the negotiating table. But sanctions did not stop the advance of Iran's nuclear program. Negotiations have done that, and it is in our interest not to deny ourselves the chance to achieve a long-term, comprehensive solution that would deny Iran a nuclear weapon.

Chance Help Solution Table Achieve

Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.

Ignorance Bad Prejudice Make

It is a false choice to tell Israel that it has to choose between peace on the one hand and security on the other. The United Nations would not ask any other country to make that choice, and it should not ask it of Israel.

Peace Choose Choice Security Country

I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without being caught up in the political maelstrom.

Work Job Think Political You Try

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

Time Broken Places Hearts Our Time

When we blame all Muslims, all Syrians, or all members of any other group because of the actions of individuals, we fall into the trap of asserting collective guilt. We empower the narrow-minded ideology that we are trying to defeat.

Blame Guilt Trying Fall Defeat

Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space.

History Trust Government Space Face

Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.

Society Rising Expression Intolerance

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.

Life Change Change The World World

Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States, are using our power legitimately. That belief - that we are acting in the interests of the global commons and in accordance with the rule of law - is what the military would call a 'force multiplier.'

Power Best People Law Influence

History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.

Good History Mask Rhetoric More How

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