Samantha Power Quotes

Samantha Power — Irish Public Servant born on September 21, 1970,

Samantha Power is an Irish-American academic, author and diplomat who currently serves as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations... (wikipedia)

What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.

We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.

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.

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.

On the rare occasions when U.N. blue helmets have made the news in the past, it has unfortunately too often been in the context of situations where peacekeepers have failed to shield civilians, or even when the peacekeepers themselves have been involved in abuse.

Samantha Power Quotes

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