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We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
Samantha Power
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.
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American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.
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You know, there is a long tradition in the U.S. of, um, promoting elections up to the point that you get an outcome you don't like. Look at Latin America in the Cold War.
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.
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One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.
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I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables?
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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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.
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